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In Symbols of Sacred Science, René Guénon explores the profound relationship between symbolism and the universal principles underlying sacred knowledge. Delving deep into the metaphysical and initiatory meanings behind the symbols that have shaped traditional science,...
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V Bros.
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2024-07-27
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The classics
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In Insights into Islamic Esoterism and Taoism, René Guénon explores the profound metaphysical teachings and spiritual practices at the heart of two of the world’s most revered traditions: Islam and Taoism. Drawing on his deep understanding of both, Guénon unveils the...
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V Bros.
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2024-07-27
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The classics
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In this illuminating collection, René Guénon brings his unrivaled insight into the symbolic and initiatic foundations of two of the West’s most enigmatic traditional organizations: Freemasonry and the Compagnonnage. Through a series of penetrating essays, Guénon...
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V Bros.
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2024-07-27
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The classics
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In diesem Open-Access-Buch geht Max Breger Fragen zu Folter aus Perspektive der interaktionistischen Soziologie nach. Folter ist eine extreme Form zwischenmenschlichen Handelns, die als Menschenrechtsverletzung zwar delegitimiert, aber übliche Praxis moderner Staaten...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-27
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Das wissenssoziologisch-diskursanalytisch ausgerichtete Buch fragt nach der diskursiven Konstruktion von Sexarbeit und deren Regulierung in Deutschland. Im Fokus stehen Arten und Weisen der Herstellung von Wissen in diesem Debattenfeld, dem immer wieder eine...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-26
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Scene affiliations can be understood as socially produced and meaningful commonalities of action in style-specific practices. They are displayed, staged, stabilized, and disseminated in the respective style formations via material artifacts and their use, the body, and...
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Springer
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2024-07-23
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Utopian thinking and utopian designs ostensibly represent a belief in human progress. The starting point of utopias is almost always a bad present that is to be overcome. But in the 20th and 21st centuries, doubts are growing about a plannable future designed by...
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Springer
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2024-07-15
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In den Bänden dieser Reihe werden erstmalig detailliert die wichtigsten Strömungen und Themen der ungemein fruchtbaren Periode der Soziologie der Zwischenkriegszeit im deutschen Sprachraum dargelegt. Damit leisten diese Bände nicht nur einen eminent wertvollen Beitrag...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-12
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After decades of descriptive studies, the biology of cancer is undergoing a real revolution: with genetic approaches, researchers have identified many of the cell deregulations likely to drive tumours. A treatment combining arsenic and retinoic acid targets the protein...
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Collège de France
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2024-07-11
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Leçons inaugurales
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Machine learning algorithms are widely presumed to herald a world in which the crippling burdens of anxiety can be left behind. The digital revolution promises a brave new world where individuals, communities and organizations can at last take control of the future –...
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Polity
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2024-07-09
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The fractious and disorganized governmental response to the coronavirus pandemic in the United States prompted many observers to ask why the country ? which had the knowledge, resources, and plans to deal with such an event ? was caught so unprepared when the crisis...
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Polity
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2024-07-09
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A key feature of those who work for the state, in the legal system and in public services is that they claim to be putting their own personal interests aside and working in a disinterested fashion, for the public good. But is disinterested behaviour possible? Can law be...
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Polity
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2024-07-04
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Durch die Akteur-Netzwerk-Theorie (ANT) ziehen sich seit ihren Anfängen zahlreiche Spuren einer intensiven Auseinandersetzung mit der Kunst und Visuellen Kultur. Annika Weinert-Brieger folgt diesen Spuren in ihrer Monografie erstmals systematisch durch die Schriften von...
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Springer VS
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2024-07-02
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In this poetical-philosophical manifesto, Gerald Raunig develops a materialist philosophy of multiplicity. On the basis of seventeen conceptual innovations – from windy kin to transversal intellect, from dissemblage to technecologies, from minor masculinity to...
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Polity
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2024-07-02
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Theory Redux
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Der Krieg in der Ukraine hält die Welt in Atem. Die aktuelle Berichterstattung ist emotionalisiert und beschränkt sich weitgehend auf die militärischen Entwicklungen des Kriegsverlaufs. Beiträge der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung wurden und werden in der aktuellen...
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Springer
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2024-07-01
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Drawing on unique data from the German Emigration and Remigration Panel Study (GERPS), the present book comprises empirical studies on various aspects of recent German emigrants’ transnational relationships to core family members, specifically intimate...
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Springer VS
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2024-06-28
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This book explores and sheds light on the contemporary discourse between science and religion. Employing the methodological approach of modern science, Overcoming Reductionism aims to explain natural phenomena not in isolation from philosophical or theological...
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Springer
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2024-06-26
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The recently-coined term digital religion refers to the understanding that contemporary religion is practiced in both online and offline contexts, and these contexts intersect with one another. Scholars of digital religion recognize that religion is increasingly...
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Oxford University Press
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2024-06-21
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Eine breite Rezeption der Arbeiten Luc Boltanskis steht in literatursoziologischen Zusammenhängen aus. Der Band setzt an diesem Befund an und eruiert explorativ die Anschlussfähigkeit von Boltanskis Studien für die Generierung und Schärfung literatursoziologischer...
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Springer VS
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2024-06-19
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The breadth and depth of Zygmunt Bauman’s engagement with social theory and the history of social thought has perhaps been underestimated, in part because many of his early writings were in Polish and never translated into English, and in part because many important...
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Polity
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2024-06-19
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