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In this short book, Jacques Rancière takes stock of the state of contemporary politics and examines current developments in the light of his writings. Rancière takes issue with what he sees as the consolidation in recent years of an increasingly oligarchic class of...
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Polity
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2020-11-10
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The secrecy of the ballot, a crucial basic element of representative democracy, is under threat. Attempts to make voting more convenient in the face of declining turnout – and the rise of the “ballot selfie” – are making it harder to guarantee secrecy. Leading scholars...
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Polity
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2020-11-10
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Political Theory Today
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«Nella misura in cui l’ermeneutica si riconosce come provenienza e destino, come pensiero dell’epoca finale della metafisica e cioè del nichilismo, essa può trovare nella “negatività”, nel dileguarsi come “destino dell’essere” – il quale si dà non come presenza...
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Rosenberg & Sellier
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2020-11-09
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Phy´sis. Collana di filosofia
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· Does anything happen for no reason at all?· Can you donate your brain and survive?· How long is the present?With a light touch, Logic and Monsters distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a collection of...
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Short Books
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2020-11-05
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· What's wrong with gluttony?· Would it be boring to live forever?· Should education prepare us for work or leisure?With a light touch, Matters of Lunch and Death distils complex philosophical thought from the ancient world to the present day into a...
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Short Books
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2020-11-05
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This book is mainly concerned with elaborating an account of the unique theoretical essence and activities of philosophy. What manner of civilization should modern humans forge? On what developmental path should a nation embark? What lifestyle should each individual...
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Springer
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2020-11-02
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Fanden Sie Philosophie eigentlich schon immer interessant, aber haben sich nie so recht herangetraut? Dann ist dies das Buch für Sie! »Philosophie für Dummies« ist eine Einführung in die Gedanken großer Denker und die verschiedenen Disziplinen, aber vor allem auch eine...
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Wiley-VCH
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2020-10-28
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Für Dummies
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In this series of interviews and dialogues which took place between 1981 and 2003, Paul Ricoeur addresses some of the central questions of political philosophy and ethics: justice, violence, war, the environmental crisis, the question of evil, ethical and political...
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Polity
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2020-10-28
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This book offers a detailed defense of a metaphysics of Platonic universals and a conception of particular objects that is coherent with said metaphysics. The work discusses all the main alternatives in metaphysics of properties and tries to show why...
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Springer
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2020-10-27
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Synthese Library
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Cosmotheism retrieves the importance of a cosmic approach to reality through its revival of the heliocentric creed championed by Copernicus, Bruno and Kepler, through its critiques of historical patterns of politics and technology, and through its sponsorship of...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
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2020-10-20
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This book advances systems thinking by introducing a new philosophy of systemic knowing. It argues that there are inescapable limits to rational understanding. Humankind has always depended on extended ways of knowing to complement the rational-analytic approach. The...
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Springer
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2020-10-16
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Contemporary Systems Thinking
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This interdisciplinary book ties the historical work of Descartes to his successors through current research and critical overviews on the neuroscience of consciousness, the brain, and cognition. This text is the first historical survey to focus on the cohesions...
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Springer
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2020-10-15
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In the ancient world, philosophy was understood to be a practical guide for living, or even itself a way of life. This volume of essays brings historical views about philosophy as a way of life, coupled with their modern equivalents, more prevalently into the domain of...
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Wiley
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2020-10-14
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Metaphilosophy
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Benedict de Spinoza is one of the most controversial and enigmatic thinkers in the history of philosophy. His greatest work, Ethics (1677), developed a comprehensive philosophical system and argued that God and Nature are identical. His scandalous Theological-Political...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-14
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Classic Thinkers
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The first focused study of Nietzsche's Dawn, offering a close reading of the text by two of the leading scholars on the philosophy of Nietzsche Published in 1881, Dawn: Thoughts on the Presumptions of Morality represents a significant moment in the development of...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2020-10-09
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What is to be done? This was the question asked by Lenin in 1901 when he was having doubts about the revolutionary capabilities of the Russian working class. 77 years later, Louis Althusser asked the same question. Faced with the tidal wave of May ‘68 and the recurrent...
Editeur :
Polity
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2020-10-07
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Theodor W. Adorno and Siegfried Kracauer were two of the most influential philosophers and cultural critics of the 20th century. While Adorno became the leading intellectual figure of the Frankfurt School, Kracauer’s writings on film, photography, literature and the...
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Polity
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2020-10-06
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The book consolidates systems thinking as a new world-hypothesis that is already suggesting itself behind the advancement of quantum mechanics and Ashby’s cybernetics. In particular, it shows how Einstein’s misgivings about quantum mechanics boil down to his persistence...
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Springer
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2020-10-06
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Contemporary Systems Thinking
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Our politics is intimately linked to the environmental conditions - and crises - of our time. The challenges of sustainability and the discovery of ecological limits to growth are transforming how we understand the core concepts at the heart of political theory. In this...
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Polity
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2020-10-02
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This comprehensive volume surveys an important but neglected period of Chinese intellectual history: Xuanxue (Neo-Daoism). It provides a holistic approach to the philosophical and religious traits of this movement via the concepts of non-being, being, and oneness....
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Springer
Parution :
2020-09-29
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