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The book analyses the concept of discoverability, and some current epistemological problems related to it, with a special attention to science. It shows that discoverability is closely related to the sustainability of human creativity in an "eco-cognitive" perspective....
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-20
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Leading philosophers Alice Crary and Lori Gruen offer a searing and desperately needed response to systems of thought and action that are failing animals and, ultimately, humans too. In the wake of global pandemics, mass extinctions, habitat destruction, and...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-05-20
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This volume showcases contemporary, ground-up ethical essays in the tradition of Wittgenstein’s broader philosophy and Wittgenstein-inspired ethical reflection. It takes the ethical relevance of Wittgenstein as a substantial and solid starting point for a broad range of...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-18
Collection :
Nordic Wittgenstein Studies
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African philosophy under the specific conditions of a colonial and postcolonial world is – at least since the 20th century if not even earlier – inherently intercultural. The aim and target of the volume is to reveal, interrogate and analyse the intercultural dimension...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-18
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This volume explores Max Scheler’s role within the philosophical and sociological debates of his time into the 21st century. Scheler was an interpreter, a transmitter of, and respondent to the philosophical and sociological tradition. He was an interlocutor for his...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-18
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«Figures of Exile is an excellent volume of essays carefully curated by Daniela Omlor and Eduardo Tasis that pays a long overdue homage to the late Nigel Dennis, one of the most important Hispanists of his generation. It does so brilliantly by bringing together a group...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2022-05-17
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In Romantic Empiricism, Dalia Nassar distinguishes and explores an understudied philosophical tradition that emerged in Germany in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, traces its development, and argues for its continued significance. Moving from the late...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-17
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As a woman with a husband and other partners, philosopher Carrie Jenkins knows that love is complicated. Love is most often associated with happiness, satisfaction and pleasure. But it has a darker side we ignore at our peril. Love is often an uncomfortable and...
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Polity
Parution :
2022-05-16
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Recent decades have witnessed an enthusiastic retrieval of eudaimonism, according to which the virtuous life is the happy life. But the critique launched by Kant - that eudaimonism is egoistic and distorts the character of duty or obligation - has persisted. Should I...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-16
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Soziale Bewegungen stehen seit jeher in einem ambivalenten Verhältnis zum Recht. Einerseits versuchen sie oft, ihre Ansprüche als Rechte geltend zu machen, andererseits kritisieren sie die entpolitisierenden, gewaltsamen und repressiven Aspekte des Rechts. Liza Mattutat...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2022-05-13
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A topic of universal concern that touches everyone, philosophy of meaning in life has roots in spiritual and religious movements in almost all cultures. Many of the issues dealt with in these movements, such as human vocation, the life worth living, our relation to what...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-13
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Certain philosophers of Antiquity compared the world to a large animal; but if the world were an animal, it would have a skin similar to the skin that envelops each living being and gives it unity. The world is neither an animal nor a machine but an interminable jumble...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-05-12
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This book provides a detailed reassessment of the role and impact of analytic philosophy in the overall philosophical debate. It does so by focusing on several important turning points that have been particularly significant for analytic philosophy’s overall history,...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society evident in today's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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Very Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
T.W. Adorno (1903-69) was a German philosopher and social and cultural theorist. His work has come to be seen as increasingly relevant to understanding the pathologies of contemporary society evident in today's...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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At the core of Nietzsche's famous critique of 'morality' lies the sweeping claim that morality is the primary source of a stance of 'life-denial,' and hence an obstacle to the possibility of an affirmative stance toward life. Moral values, Nietzsche argues, are inimical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2022-05-12
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A paradox lies at the heart of modernity: the simultaneous demand to create ideas to make us better humans and communities, along with the contrary imperative that we criticize all ideals, especially the ones we have created. In philosophy we see this paradox most...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-10
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This book outlines how the protagonists in The Nibelung's Ring, The Lord of the Rings, and Game of Thrones attempt to construct identities and expand their consciousness manifestations. As the characters in the three works face the ends of their...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2022-05-09
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Democratic societies run on opinion, and so reputation matters to their functioning. Issues pertaining to reptuation emerge in discussions ranging from the character of political candidates to the image nation-states project to domestic and foreign audiences. But...
Editeur :
Oxford University Press
Parution :
2022-05-06
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