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In 2011, Egypt witnessed more protests than any other country in the world. Counter to the received narrative, Amy Austin Holmes argues that the ousting of Mubarak in 2011 did not represent the culmination of a revolution or the beginning of a transition period, but...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-08-01
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The world is a complex place, and this complexity is an obstacle to our attempts to explain, predict, and control it. In Power and Influence, Richard Corry investigates the assumptions that are built into the reductive method of explanation--the method whereby we study...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-31
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The world is a complex place, and this complexity is an obstacle to our attempts to explain, predict, and control it. In Power and Influence, Richard Corry investigates the assumptions that are built into the reductive method of explanation--the method whereby we study...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-31
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Feminist ethics addresses how power, through gender, affects moral practice and theory. This enterprise is more important than ever before in an age of sharpened attention and concern for feminist issues and injustices. Yet the number of terms which have entered...
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Oxford University Press
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2019-07-31
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This book treats the presence of God and the presence of persons. The experience of the presence of God is a well-recognized religious experience in theistic traditions. The experience of the presence of persons, this book argues, is an analogous moral experience. As it...
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Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-31
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This book presents the heritage of the Lvov-Warsaw School from both the historical and the philosophical perspective. The historical view focuses on the beginnings and the dramatic end of the School brought about by the outbreak of World War II. The philosophical view,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-30
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Self and City in the Thought of Saint Augustine explores the analogy between the self and political society in the thought of St. Augustine of Hippo. This analogy is an important theme in the history of political thought. Attempts have been made to understand the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2019-07-30
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This book explores C.G. Jung's complex relationship with Friedrich Nietzsche through the lens of the so-called 'visionary' literary tradition. The book connects Jung's experience of the posthumously published Liber Novus (The Red Book) with his own (mis)understanding of...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-29
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The work of Peter von Matt, Switzerland’s finest living literary critic, offers a model of humanisticscholarship par excellence: learned, gracious, elegant, dancing nimbly from history andculture to politics and philosophy. Von Matt weaves engaging literary analyses...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2019-07-29
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This book provides an up to date, high-level exchange on God in a uniquely productive style. Readers witness a contemporary version of a classic debate, as two professional philosophers seek to learn from each other while making their cases for their distinct positions....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-27
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The question of what defines the human, and of what is human about the humanities, have been shaken up by the radical critiques of humanism and the displacement of anthropomorphism that have gained currency in recent years, propelled in part by rapid advances in our...
Editeur :
Polity
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2019-07-26
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This book interrogates white responses to black-led movements for racial justice. It is a philosophical self-reflection on the ways in which ‘white’ reactions to Black Lives Matter stand in the way of the movement’s important work. It probes reactions which often...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2019-07-25
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Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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Niccolò Machiavelli taught that political leaders must be prepared to do evil so that good may come of it, and his name has been a byword ever since for duplicity and immorality. Is his sinister reputation deserved? In answering this question Quentin Skinner traces the...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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What are humans?What makes us who we are?
Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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What are humans?What makes us who we are?
Many think that we are just complicated machines, or animals that are different from machines only by being conscious. In Are We Bodies or Souls? Richard Swinburne comes to the defence of the soul and presents new...
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OUP Oxford
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2019-07-25
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This book asks whether there any limits to the sorts of religious considerations that can be raised in public debates, and if there are, by whom they are to be identified. Its starting point is the work of Richard Rorty, whose pragmatic pluralism leads him to argue for...
Editeur :
Palgrave Pivot
Parution :
2019-07-24
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This volume articulates and develops new research questions and original insights regarding the philosophical dialogue between Hegel’s philosophy, his heritage, and contemporary phenomenology, including, among others, Husserl, Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Ricoeur. The...
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Springer
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2019-07-24
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau is one of the most controversial philosophers of the eighteenth century, and his groundbreaking work still provokes heated debate in contemporary political theory. In this book, Céline Spector, one of the world’s foremost experts on Rousseau’s...
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Polity
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2019-07-24
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Dieser Band betrachtet Zeitdiagnose als eine notwendige wissenschaftliche Aufgabe und als eine entscheidende Möglichkeit, gegenwartsrelevante Forschung voranzutreiben und interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu entwickeln. Der erste Teil des Buches stellt eine Theorie der...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
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2019-07-24
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