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This book explores the political-aesthetic practices of transgender women in Lima, Peru, and how they use these to survive and fight for recognition and full citizenship, through drawing on ethnographic research and on decolonial feminist and aesthetic theories....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-27
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Motivational hedonism (often called "psychological hedonism") claims that everything we do is done in pursuit of pleasure (in the widest sense) and to avoid pain and displeasure (again, in the widest sense). Although perennially attractive, many philosophers and...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-12-27
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A defining feature of being human is our ability to think. We refer to ourselves, after all, as Homo sapiens. But in a world where experiencing and achieving as much as possible is the number one preoccupation, there is little room for reflection. Technology is also...
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Polity
Parution :
2023-12-27
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Der Autor untersucht verschiedene Antworten auf die grundlegende existentiell-ethische Frage, wie man über sein eigenes Leben bestimmen soll. Dabei werden drei grundlegende Denkparadigmen betrachtet. Im aristotelischen Paradigma steht die Wahrheit als grundlegendes...
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Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2023-12-26
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This book presents a close reading of four texts by Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio, guided by Gilles Deleuze’s concept of metamorphosis, «becoming-animal». In his critique of anthropocentrism and Western reason, Le Clézio dismantles the opposition between mind and matter,...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-12-26
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The credence framework is used by scientists and social scientists in almost all disciplines, including economics and political theory, and it underpins policy choice in healthcare, transport, education, and numerous other areas. It is hard to overestimate its...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-12-26
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This volume brings together recent work on the nature of belief, imagination, and delusion. Whilst philosophers of mind and epistemology employ notions of belief and imagination in their theorizing, parallel work seeking to make these notions more precise continues....
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OUP Oxford
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2023-12-24
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?This book is the first sustained scholarly account of women and goddesses in presocratic philosophy. It approaches the origin of western philosophy via Nietzsche, Feminism, and Embodied Cognition in order to argue that the presocratics were reviving, within the largely...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-22
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?Authors, Factions, and Courts in Angevin England: A Literature of Personal Ambition (12th-13th Century) advances a model for historical study of courtly literature by foregrounding the personal aims, networks, and careers as the impetus for much of the period’s...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-20
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Most people use money almost every day, and financial assets have become so important to modern life that they determine our fate both as individuals and as societies. Yet we seldom stop to think about what all of this means, how it works, and how it ought to work. How...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-12-20
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"A mind-bending jaunt ... that makes clear in fascinating detail how math is more than a sum of its parts" (Publishers Weekly) Winner of the Neumann Prize “Let no one ignorant of geometry enter here,” Plato warned would-be philosophers....
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Basic Books
Parution :
2023-12-19
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Can Israelis and Palestinians end their long conflict? The shocking violence of current events undermines hope, as does the long history of peace deals sabotaged by extremists on both sides. In this compelling and timely book, the eminent moral philosopher Jonathan...
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Polity
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2023-12-19
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Privacy matters because it shields us from possible abuses of power. Human beings need privacy just as much as they need community. Our need for socialization brings with it risks and burdens which in turn give rise to the need for spaces and time away from others. To...
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OUP Oxford
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2023-12-19
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Expanding the Critical Animal Studies Imagination: Essays in Solidarity and Total Liberation pushes critical animal studies forward and outward by making new connections to movements and ideas that have been little engaged with in publication to the present. This book...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2023-12-18
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Digitale Produkte, Dienste sowie Kommunikationsformen zeichnen sich besonders dadurch aus, dass sie im physikalischen Sinne immateriell sind. Aus dieser Eigenschaft folgen vielfältige Möglichkeiten, Lebenspraktiken und Lebenswelten individuell zu gestalten. Leicht zu...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2023-12-17
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This book connects recent developments in speculative realism, new materialism, and eco-phenomenology to articulate an approach to wonder that escapes the connected traps of anthropocentrism and correlationism. Brian Onishi argues that wonder has explanatory power...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2023-12-15
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This volume contains for the first time in English, Jan Patocka’s seminal essay “The Phenomenology of Afterlife”, as well as contributions surrounding and analyzing this text. In his essay, Patocka reflects on our relation to the dead and on how the departure of a loved...
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Springer
Parution :
2023-12-12
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The world is encountering multiple crises - climate, droughts, floods, energy, food, and pandemics, to name a few. We have a problem, this is the solution.
Capitalism and Crises is about how capitalism can fix them - how it can solve not cause them.The reason why it...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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It is often claimed that Einstein's magnum opus---his 1915 theory of General Relativity---is distinguished from other theories of space and time in virtue of its background independence. It's also often claimed that background independence is an essential feature of any...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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The Quality of Thought develops and defends the thesis that thinking is a kind of experience, characterized by a sui generis phenomenology, and draws out the implications of this thesis for dominant views in philosophy of mind, philosophy of language, and metaphysics....
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2023-12-12
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