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This book connects the philosophy of the Marquis de Sade—one of the most notorious, iconic, and yet poorly-understood figures within the history of European thought—with the broader themes of the Enlightenment. Rather than seeing himself as a mere pornographer, Sade...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-09-05
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Dieses Buch bietet eine (medien-)philosophische Grundlagenforschung, die philosophiehistorische Fragen im Licht der Gegenwart neu behandelt.Hauptfrage ist, wie philosophische Realismusbegriffe in der Fotografie des 20. und in der Profilbild-Kultur des...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-09-04
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Language policies are increasingly acknowledged as being a necessary component of many decisions taken in the areas of the labor market, education, minority languages, mobility, and social inclusion of migrants. They can affect the democratic control of political...
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Springer
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2018-09-03
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Immanuel Kant's enduring influence on philosophy is indisputable. In particular, Kant transformed debates on the fundamental questions in logic, and it is the significance and complexity of this accomplishment that Huaping Lu-Adler here explores.
Kant's theory of...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-09-03
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This volume contains essays that examine infinity in early modern philosophy. The essays not only consider the ways that key figures viewed the concept. They also detail how these different beliefs about infinity influenced major philosophical systems throughout the...
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Springer
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2018-08-31
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Karl Jaspers gilt als ein Philosoph ohne schriftstellerischen Ehrgeiz, obwohl er der meistgelesene Philosoph der jungen Bundesrepublik war. Hannah Arendt ist die erste gewesen, die zwischen seiner Art zu schreiben und seinem weltbürgerlichen Denken eine Verbindung...
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J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-31
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Is morality fixed objectively, independently of all human judgment, or do we "invent" right and wrong? Articulating the Moral Community argues that neither of these simple answers is correct. Its central thesis is that, working within zones of objective indeterminacy,...
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Oxford University Press
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2018-08-31
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Was ist eine gute Handlung? Und was ist eine gerechte Handlung? Dies sind die beiden zentralen Fragen der praktischen Philosophie. Das Lehrbuch untersucht diese beiden Fragen in den Bereichen der klassischen Ethik, der Sozialethik, der Wirtschaftsethik und der...
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Springer
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2018-08-30
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Shocks, from natural disasters to military catastrophes, have long been exploited by the state to impose privatization, cuts and rampant free markets. This book argues that the left can use such moments of chaos to achieve emancipation. Graham Jones illustrates how...
Editeur :
Polity
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2018-08-28
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Radical Futures
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What does it mean for the people to actually rule? Formal democracy is an empty and cynical shell, while the nationalist Right claims to advance its anti-democratic project in the name of ‘the People’. How can the Left respond in a way that is true to both its radical...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2018-08-28
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Radical Futures
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This book draws on the theatrical thinking of Samuel Beckett and the philosophy of Gilles Deleuze to propose a method for research undertaken at the borders of performance and philosophy. Exploring how Beckett fabricates encounters with the impossible and the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-28
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This book is about religion, pacifism, and the nonviolence that informs pacifism in its most coherent form. Pacifism is one religious approach to war and violence. Another is embodied in just war theories, and both pacifism and just war thinking are critically examined....
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-27
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This book presents a collection of philosophical essays on freedom and tolerance in the Netherlands. It explores liberal freedom and its limits in areas such as freedom of speech, public reason, sexual morality, euthanasia, drugs policy, and minority rights. The book...
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Springer
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2018-08-27
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This book interrogates the relation between film spectatorship and film theory in order to criticise some of the disciplinary and authoritarian assumptions of 1970s apparatus theory, without dismissing its core political concerns. Theory, in this perspective, should not...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2018-08-27
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This book offers an analysis of humor, comedy, and laughter as philosophical topics in the 19th Century. It traces the introduction of humor as a new aesthetic category inspired by Laurence Sterne’s "Tristram Shandy" and shows Sterne’s deep influence on German aesthetic...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-24
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Anhand des Vergleichs verschiedener Erklärungstypen am Beispiel des Theologen Wolfhart Pannenberg und des Biologen Edward O. Wilson zeigt Anne C. Thaeder, dass ein bereicherndes Ergänzungsverhältnis von Wissenschaft und Weltanschauung in der Anthropologie unter...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2018-08-24
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Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject. These thousand-odd...
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Polity
Parution :
2018-08-23
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The Quality of Life: Aristotle Revised presents a philosophical theory about the constituents of human well-being.The principal idea is that what Aristotle calls 'external goods' - wealth, reputation, power - have at most an indirect bearing on the quality of our lives....
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OUP Oxford
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2018-08-23
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In Form, Matter, Substance, Kathrin Koslicki develops a contemporary defense of the Aristotelian doctrine of hylomorphism. According to this approach, objects are compounds of matter (hule) and form (morphe or eidos) and a living organism is not exhausted by the body,...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2018-08-23
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Gehirne unter Spannung Die fortschreitende Digitalisierung verändert unsere Kommunikation, unsere Bildung, unser Sozialleben, nicht zuletzt unsere Wahrnehmung von uns selbst. Wie wirken sich diese Veränderungen inzwischen und zukünftig auf Gesellschaft, Familie...
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Springer
Parution :
2018-08-23
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