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The purpose of this book is to show the philosophical and anthropological foundation of the dispute about culture, especially in the perspective of the opposition between high and low culture. By analysing the most important achievements of Western philosophical...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
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2020-06-29
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Anton Wilhelm Amo (c.1703-after 1752) was the first African philosopher in the modern period to write in the European philosophical tradition and study and teach in European universities.
At the dawn of the eighteenth century, while still a small boy, he was sent from...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-26
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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-26
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Essays on Existence and Essence presents a series of writings--including several previously unpublished--by Bob Hale on the topics of ontology and modality. The essays develop and consolidate a number of themes central to his work and to contemporary metaphysics, logic,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-26
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This book explores cinema and film theory through classical Indian theories. While non-Western philosophies have largely been ignored by existing paradigms, Gopalan Mullik responds through an interrogation of how audio-visual images are processed by the audiences at the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-26
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Most people intuitively understand the nature of morality; this tends to belie the fact that morality is more complex, controversial and interesting than generally appreciated. This book provides a comprehensive overview of morality from various disciplines and...
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Springer
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2020-06-26
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This novel, ground-breaking study aims to define Hesiod's place in early Greek intellectual history by exploring his conception of language and the ways in which it represents reality. Divided into three parts, it addresses a network of issues related to etymology,...
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OUP Oxford
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2020-06-25
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This novel, ground-breaking study aims to define Hesiod's place in early Greek intellectual history by exploring his conception of language and the ways in which it represents reality. Divided into three parts, it addresses a network of issues related to etymology,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world'
The Mòzi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical, political, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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'The task of the benevolent person is surely to diligently seek to promote the benefit of the world and eliminate harm to the world'
The Mòzi is among the founding texts of the Chinese philosophical tradition, presenting China's earliest ethical, political, and...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-25
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In this volume, Baz offers a wide-ranging discussion of Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspect-perception, with special focus on Wittgenstein’s method. Baz starts out with an interpretation of Wittgenstein’s remarks on aspects and continues with attempts to...
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Springer
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2020-06-24
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This book is a theoretical account for general psychology of how human beings meaningfully relate with their bodies-- from the basic physiological processes upwards to the highest psychological functions of religiosity, ethical reasoning, and devotional practices. ...
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Springer
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2020-06-23
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Implizite Vorurteile sind ein sozialpsychologisches Konzept, welches impliziten, d. h. unbewussten Rassismus erklärt. Was aber sind implizite Vorurteile ihrer Natur nach und wann führen sie zu diskriminierendem Verhalten? Handelt es sich um unbewusste...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2020-06-23
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This book re-examines Adorno’s aesthetics, developing a new literary approach that aims to unveil hidden elements of Adorno’s thought. Farina proposes to read Adorno’s aesthetics as a literary theory of art, showing its efficacy in its comprehension of the most advanced...
Editeur :
Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-23
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In diesem Sammelband werden die Herausforderungen und Potenziale einer zukünftig nachhaltig zu gestaltenden Bioökonomie interdisziplinär beleuchtet. Hierbei wird die Bioökonomie als sozio-technisches System aufgefasst, in dem die technische Ausgestaltung aufs Engste mit...
Editeur :
Springer VS
Parution :
2020-06-23
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Existentialism: An Introduction has established itself as the most comprehensive and accessible book on the subject available. In this fully revised and expanded second edition, Kevin Aho draws on a wide range of existentialist thinkers from both the secular and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2020-06-22
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Do technologies advance our self-identities, as they do our bodies, cognitive skills, and the next developmental stage called postpersonal? Did we already manage to be fully human, before becoming posthuman? Are we doomed to disintegration and episodic selfhood? This...
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2020-06-22
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This book offers an insightful history of dystopian literature, integrating it within the conceptual schemas of Deleuze and Guattari. Unlike earlier examples of dystopia which depict representations of a possible future that is remarkably worse than present society,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2020-06-19
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For the Parmenidean monist, there are no distinctions whatsoever-indeed, distinctions are unintelligible. In The Parmenidean Ascent, Michael Della Rocca aims to revive this controversial approach on rationalist grounds. He not only defends the attribution of such an...
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Oxford University Press
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2020-06-19
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Nietzsche is one of the most subversive thinkers of the western philosophical canon. Yet until recently, his ethics has been sidelined within Anglophone moral philosophy. Simon Robertson offers the first sustained, single-authored critical assessment of his ethical...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2020-06-19
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