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The book poses the fundamental question of what objectivity means in practical legal discourse and what is its role. By applying critical discourse analysis to the applications of the term “objectivity” in judicial discourse – based on cases from Poland – the book...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2021-02-17
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In our modern, urbanized societies, our engagement with the natural world often seems distant and superficial. Human life is now far removed from its prehistoric origins, when humans dwelt deep within the forests and depended on them for their survival.In this important...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-02-12
Collection :
New Russian Thought
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In this post-apocalyptic rollercoaster ride, philosopher Srecko Horvat invites us to explore the Apocalypse in terms of ‘revelation’ (rather than as the ‘end’ itself). He argues that the only way to prevent the end – i.e., extinction – is to engage in a close reading of...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-02-11
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What we can learn from a Renaissance nowhere In 1516, a book was published in Latin with the enigmatic Greek-derived word as its title. Utopia—which could mean either “good-place” or “no-place”—gives a traveler’s account of a newly discovered island somewhere in...
Editeur :
Capstone
Parution :
2021-02-10
Collection :
Capstone Classics
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This volume is a collection of essays in honour of Professor Mohammad Ardeshir. It examines topics which, in one way or another, are connected to the various aspects of his multidisciplinary research interests. Based on this criterion, the book is divided into three...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-02-09
Collection :
Logic, Epistemology, and the Unity of Science
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This book focuses on the beginnings of capitalism in Central Europe with emphasis on the German-speaking areas from the 14th to the 17th century. It also reviews and assesses the writings on the topic by the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. At the...
Editeur :
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2021-02-04
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The field of academic psychiatry is in crisis, everywhere. It is not merely a health crisis of resource scarcity or distribution, competing claims and practice models, or level of development from one country to another, but a deeper, more fundamental crisis about the...
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Springer
Parution :
2021-02-03
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There is one fundamental thing that has changed in our societies since 1950: life has got longer. Over the last few generations, 20 or 30 years have been added to the duration of our lives. But after the age of 50, human beings experience a kind of suspension: no longer...
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Polity
Parution :
2021-02-03
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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...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
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
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
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...
Editeur :
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...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-20
Collection :
Argumentation Library
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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
Parution :
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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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...
Editeur :
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 -...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2021-01-10
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