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The prominent contributors to this edited volume were asked to discuss neglected classic works in both Western and non-Western philosophy, and to make a case for their contemporary importance in an accessible and inviting way.The result - a successor to an earlier 2016...
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Oxford University Press
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2022-06-23
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Die jüngste Vergangenheit führte vor Augen, in welchem Ausmaß Gesetze, Verordnungen und Erlässe die persönliche Freiheit jedes Bürgers eines Staates einschränken können. Der vorliegende Band geht der Frage nach, ob das positive, gesetzte Recht unhinterfragt zu...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-06-21
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This book is devoted to the last part of Aristotle’s collection of short treatises known today as the Parva Naturalia, i.e. the treatise On Youth and Old Age, on Life and Death, on Respiration. In the three main sections of the book, the author offers a...
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Springer
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2022-06-21
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This book presents Latin American Perspectives on women philosophers, comprising selected articles from the First International Conference of Women in Modern Philosophy that took place in Rio de Janeiro City, Brazil, Latin America, in June of 2019. The conference...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-06-21
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In the wake of populist challenges throughout the past decade in the U.S. and Europe, liberalism has been described as elitist and out of touch, concerned with protecting and promoting material interests with an orientation that is pragmatic, legalistic, and...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-06-21
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This book is a unique contribution to scholarship of the poetics of Wallace Stevens, offering an analysis of the entire oeuvre of Stevens’s poetry using the philosophical framework of Martin Heidegger. Marking the first book-length engagement with a philosophical...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-20
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From the first awakening of his philosophical consciousness to his last philosophicalwork, Max Scheler pondered questions about the human being. He thought that theanthropological question provides unity to all philosophical inquiry. Scheler’s thoughthas not received...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-06-17
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Why broach and challenge the question of neutrality? For some urgent reasons. The neuter is generally considered to be the condition of objectivity. However, historically, this is asserted by a subject which is masculine and not neuter. Claiming that truth and the way...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-17
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The idea that diverse cultural and ethnic groups should co-exist within a country and that assimilation should not be forced upon immigrant groups – “multiculturalism” – was orthodoxy 20 years ago. Today it’s coming under pressure. In this introduction to the political...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-06-16
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Analyzing Prayer draws together a range of theologians and philosophers to deal with different approaches to prayer as a Christian practice. The essays included deal with issues pertaining to petitionary prayer, prayer as reorientation of oneself in the presence of God,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-16
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Analyzing Prayer draws together a range of theologians and philosophers to deal with different approaches to prayer as a Christian practice. The essays included deal with issues pertaining to petitionary prayer, prayer as reorientation of oneself in the presence of God,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-16
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has been a beacon of progress in modern times, and the Oration on the Dignity of Man has been the engine of his fame. But he never wrote a speech about the dignity of man. The prince's speech announced quite different projects: persuading...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-16
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Giovanni Pico della Mirandola has been a beacon of progress in modern times, and the Oration on the Dignity of Man has been the engine of his fame. But he never wrote a speech about the dignity of man. The prince's speech announced quite different projects: persuading...
Editeur :
OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-16
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Epistemology is not just about the nature of knowledge or the analysis of concepts such as 'knows' and 'justified'. It is also about what we ought to believe and how we ought to investigate and reason about what is the case. This is a study focused on these normative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-16
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Epistemology is not just about the nature of knowledge or the analysis of concepts such as 'knows' and 'justified'. It is also about what we ought to believe and how we ought to investigate and reason about what is the case. This is a study focused on these normative...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-16
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The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds represents a new wave of interest in 'the metaphysical Kant'. In recent decades Kant scholars have increasingly become skeptical of interpreting Kant as a philosopher who wished to truly "leave metaphysics behind".The contributors to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-06-16
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The Sensible and Intelligible Worlds represents a new wave of interest in 'the metaphysical Kant'. In recent decades Kant scholars have increasingly become skeptical of interpreting Kant as a philosopher who wished to truly "leave metaphysics behind".The contributors to...
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OUP Oxford
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2022-06-16
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The relationship between two distinct periods in Michel Foucault's work is the starting point for this book. In "Truth and Power," an interview Foucault gave in 1976, he states that to create a new politics of truth is an intellectual's main task. In this book, Priscila...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-06-15
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Ein Mensch, eine Stimme: Das Wahlrecht ist die Grundlage der Demokratie. Jedes politische System, das nicht allen dieses Recht zugesteht, erscheint als undemokratisch. Folgt man dieser Auffassung, so ist es nicht hinnehmbar, eine große Bevölkerungsgruppe – Personen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-06-15
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As the environmental crisis accelerates, we can easily feel overwhelmed, but our feeling of powerlessness is partly due to a misunderstanding of the natural world. We tend to think of nature as a cathedral on fire, like Notre Dame engulfed in flames. But the living...
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Polity
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2022-06-15
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