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Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
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Despite all of humanity's failures, futile efforts and wrong turnings in the past, Adorno did not let himself be persuaded that we are doomed to suffer a bleak future for ever. One of the factors that prevented him from identifying a definitive plan for the future...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-11-05
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28,30€
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Das vorliegende Buch präsentiert eine phänomenologische Analyse der verschiedenen Formen zwischenmenschlicher Gewalt und ihrer oft unterbelichteten Beziehungen. Auf der Grundlage einer Transformation der Phänomenologie und im Rekurs auf den aktuellen Diskurs der...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-11-03
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Our sensory relationships with the social and biological world have altered appreciably as a result of recent developments in internet and other mobile communication technologies. We now look at a screen, we touch either the screen or a keyboard in response to what we...
Editeur :
Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-11-03
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‘Every ideal, whatever it may be, has a magical quality: it is linked to us, and it transmits something of its very quintessence. If we have chosen a very high ideal, it will constantly supply us with beneficial particles and currents. Since we have shaped it and kept...
Editeur :
Editions Prosveta
Parution :
2014-10-30
Collection :
Brochures (EN)
ePub
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This is the first comprehensive companion to the study of Daoism as a philosophical tradition. It provides a general overview of Daoist philosophy in various thinkers and texts from 6th century BCE to 5th century CE and reflects the latest academic developments in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-27
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Metaphysics: The Fundamentals presents readers with a systematic, comprehensive introductory overview of modern analytic metaphysics. Presents an accessible, up-to-date and broad-ranging survey of one of the most dynamic and often daunting sub-fields in contemporary...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2014-10-27
Collection :
Fundamentals of Philosophy
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24,95€
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This book is a collection of English articles by Pan Guangdan, one of China’s most distinguished sociologists and eugenicists and also a renowned expert in education. Pan is a prolific scholar, whose collected works number some fourteen volumes. Pan's daughters Pan...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-21
Collection :
China Academic Library
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Descartes’s concern with the proper method of belief formation is evident in the titles of his works—e.g., The Search after Truth, The Rules for the Direction of the Mind and The Discourse on Method of rightly conducting one’s reason and seeking the truth in the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-20
Collection :
Philosophical Studies in Contemporary Culture
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The liberal enlightenment as well as the more radical left have both traditionally opposed religion as a reactionary force in politics, a view culminating in an identification of the politics of religion as fundamentalist theocracy. But recently a number of...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-20
ePub
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?This volume situates Indians in the contemporary world and profiles the major facets of their thought and behaviour; then goes back to trace their roots to ancient thought to see how the past predisposes and the present guides Indians in their everyday life. The volume...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2014-10-17
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‘We must see to it that we put the best of ourselves in our letters; for there is nothing to suggest that we shall see each other again soon.’ So wrote Walter Benjamin to Gretel Adorno in spring 1940 from the south of France, shortly before he took his own life. The...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-17
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68,00€
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'My dears: this is but a brief note to welcome you to the new world, where you are now no longer all too far away from us. ‘ So begins Adorno’s letter to his parents in May 1939, welcoming them to Cuba where they had just arrived after fleeing from Nazi Germany at the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-17
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Displaying the distinctive combination of narration and philosophy for which he is well known, this new book by Peter Sloterdijk develops a radically new account of globalization at the beginning of the twenty-first century. The author takes seriously the historical and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-16
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62,20€
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Literarische Gattungen sind Wissensformate und -praktiken. Sie form(ul)ieren, organisieren, strukturieren, kurzum: texturieren Wissen. Der Band geht der Frage nach, welches Wissen Gattungen mithilfe der ihnen eigenen Texturen wie arrangieren. Welches Gattungswissen wird...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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The essays in the first part of this book, «Art and Aesthetics», are devoted to the invention and development of aesthetics as a discipline.The essays’ topics range from the nature of analytic aesthetics and the invention of modern aesthetics to notions of the aesthetic...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2014-10-16
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A thoroughly updated introduction to the concepts, methods, and standards of critical thinking,A Practical Guide to Critical Thinking: Deciding What to Do and Believe, Second Edition is a unique presentation of the formal strategies used when thinking through reasons...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2014-10-15
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Over the last decade, Axel Honneth has established himself as one of the leading social and political philosophers in the world today. Rooted in the tradition of critical theory, his writings have been central to the revitalization of critical theory and have become...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
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22,60€
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Everything in their respective positions divides them: Alain Badiou is the thinker of a revitalized communism and Alain Finkielkraut the mournful observer of the loss of values. The two opponents, gathered here for their first-ever debate, have irreconcilable visions....
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
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-66%
56,50€
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This important new volume brings together Habermas' key writing on religion and religious belief. Habermas explores the relations between Christian and Jewish thought, on the one hand, and the Western philosophical tradition on the other. In so doing, he examines a...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2014-10-15
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-9%
23,00€
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