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A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-09-09
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This book offers an exercise in reception theory and investigates the key figures in the reception of Nietzsche’s critique of Judeo-Christianity in the course of the twentieth century. It has often been remarked upon — but rarely, if ever, explained — why Nietzsche, the...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-06
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The must-read new book on the art and science of leadership, from former Prime Minister and Labour leader, Tony Blair'Engaging, insightful, provocative' Observer'A fascinating treatise on leadership . . . I am glad Blair has written it. It will fascinate anyone...
Editeur :
Penguin
Parution :
2024-09-05
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Der Band versammelt Studien zur juristischen und zur literarischen Hermeneutik sowie zu deren Verhältnis. Auf der Grundlage philosophischer und theologischer Konzepte zum Verstehen und zur Interpretation von Texten werden die Besonderheiten der Auslegung von Recht und...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-04
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This book puts forward a layered theory of emotions, which argues that emotional processes are best understood as occurrences that happen within complex emotional situational scenarios that integrate different and interconnected layers. According to this theory, there...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-03
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Philosophie als Wissenschaft, als Grundlagendisziplin und als interdisziplinäre Forschung: Ansätze, die sich eine zu Unrecht fast vergessene philosophische Schule zu eigen gemacht hat, nämlich die 1903 neu gegründete Fries’sche Schule um den Göttinger Philosophen...
Editeur :
J.B. Metzler
Parution :
2024-09-03
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The rise of a significantly large (and young) Muslim population in the West, possessing no historical tradition of being a minority in a non-Muslim environment, has led to a recurring debate about the integration of Muslims into Western societies and the compatibility...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-02
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This volume brings into focus the unique philosophical and historical importance of Wittgenstein's pre-Tractatus writings. These contributed essays show that Wittgenstein’s earliest writings are worth studying for their own sake. They also reveal how much one can still...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-09-01
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Jacques Rancière is almost unique amongst contemporary thinkers in his consistent hostility to sociologically informed modes of interpretation. This hostility is not limited to his detailed critiques of Pierre Bourdieu—it characterises his thinking about politics,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-31
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A philosophical exploration of Joker and the meaning of the iconic antagonist's murderous escapadesA diabolically sinister but clownish villain, Joker is a symbolically rich and philosophically fascinating character. Both crazed and cunning, sadistically cruel but...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-30
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book expands the known canon by presenting arguments and concepts from women philosophers, from all periods of the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the present day. The collaborative collection is an undertaking that emerged from intensive discussions on...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-30
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This book investigates dispositions in grammatical-normative terms through a contrast between a naturalized paradigm and a Wittgenstein-inspired perspective. The book presents a conceptual analysis of the notion of disposition informed by Wittgenstein's and Ryle's...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-29
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This book provides a critical outlook on, and an inquiry into the practical implications of, the works of Professor W.J. Waluchow, one of the most important jurisprudence scholars of the early twenty-first century, while also reflecting on the interconnections between...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-28
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Is it a contradiction, a lie, a madness, a freedom to affirm a theory and live the opposite?
Rousseau writes a treatise on education thanks to the abandonment of his five children, Kierkegaard composes religious texts while living as a libertine, Beauvoir founds the...
Editeur :
Max Milo Éditions
Parution :
2024-08-28
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John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His published works spanned many areas, but he is not well known as a political philosopher. In the late 1970s, however, Mackie turned his attention to issues...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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John Leslie Mackie (1917-1981) was one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century. His published works spanned many areas, but he is not well known as a political philosopher. In the late 1970s, however, Mackie turned his attention to issues...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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This book explores new societal paradigms related to current debates and discusses how we can confront aspects of those debates which do not fit into a traditional social model. It proposes a theoretical and reflective framework for understanding new social discourse,...
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Palgrave Macmillan
Parution :
2024-08-28
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The Possibility of Moral Community defends the claim that there could be a moral community, a community of rational creatures somewhat like ourselves living together in ways informed and regulated by shared normative standards and understandings. These creatures aim to...
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OUP Oxford
Parution :
2024-08-28
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This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics.This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By revisiting Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-08-26
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From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-08-26
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