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This collection of research contributes to the common goal of looking at the imagination from the novel perspective of its ecological potential. The phenomenological imagination, thus, appears no longer confined in the mere relationship with perception but emerges as...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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Ecology, as a descriptive science, is not only a framework for describing biological relations between living beings, but a way of thinking and cognizing entities in transcendental terms. This way of thinking cannot be limited to the descriptive realm because it implies...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book offers a triangular comparative analysis by evaluating three different religious approaches to emptiness. It reveals what emptiness or nothingness mean in different cultural and religious contexts. Further, it assesses each tradition’s emptiness concerning the...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book is the first English-language history of modern Chinese philosophy, covering the decades from the late 19th century through the first half of the 20th century. During this period, Chinese philosophers offered valuable insights on a variety of issues, and made...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book applies notions from C.S. Peirce’s philosophy, such as semiosis, mind, diagrammatic reasoning, abduction, and habits, to contemporary problems in distributed cognitive science. These problems include distributed cognitive systems, cognitive niche...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This contributed volume presents eco-imagination as a new tool for knowledge and cultural, artistic, as well as scientific expression. Herein eco-phenomenology becomes capable of opening a viable path towards a future of environmental and human sustainability. The...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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Does only the present exist? Or does the past exist as well?
This classic question of philosophy is discussed in an accessible manner, which does not presume special prior knowledge. Instead, the book presents a serious discussion of this question in the context of our...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book sets out and examines the comprehensive theory of value advanced by G.W. Leibniz over the mature period of his career. Well-known as a mathematician, a physical scientist, a metaphysician, a theologian, and even as an engineer and inventor, he is less known as...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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This book offers a new interpretation of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus and connects it with the early development of analytic philosophy in Cambridge and Jena.
In this book, Wittgenstein’s method is presented as an epitome of analytic philosophy. It considers how...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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The book demonstrates that Nietzsche consistently advocated an ethical standpoint that, under certain conditions, recommends and prescribes the affirmation of life. For Nietzsche, the affirmation of life is closely connected to the “Dionysian.” Agatonovic reveals how...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book addresses aesthetics from a process philosophy perspective to highlight how even the perception of fixed objects, such as painting and drawing, depends on the intertwining and layering of a range of processes.
Drawing on philosophers within the process...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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Was heißt es, ein philosophisches Leben zu führen – und wie lässt sich dieses inmitten von Politik und Religion behaupten?In Menschliches, Allzumenschliches (1878) vollzieht Friedrich Nietzsche einen tiefgreifenden Bruch mit seinem bisherigen...
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J.B. Metzler
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2026-01-01
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This book delves into the transformations and challenges faced by modern Chinese universities during periods of social and political upheaval. It examines the choices made by universities in modern Chinese civil society and the reincarnation of university spirit in...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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This book explores the origins and evolution of the university spirit in early modern China. It begins with the integration of Chinese and Western cultures, leading to the birth of university ideals. The book examines the spiritual ecosystem of missionary universities...
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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In diesem Handbuch wird erstmals im deutschsprachigen Raum das Paradigma des Utilitarismus umfassend und systematisch behandelt. Sowohl die Grundlagen und Grundbegriffe der Theorie und ihre wichtigsten Proponenten wie auch wichtige Anwendungsbereiche in der Gegenwart...
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J.B. Metzler
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2026-01-01
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This book clarifies the differing roles of informed consent in healthcare as well as the guidelines, rules, and laws governing consent. The growing use of AI in health care has led to open questions about disclosure to the public as well as to healthcare consumers....
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Springer
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2026-01-01
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The aim of this book is to question the standard Christian narrative about procreation. It explores the key philosophical arguments for anti-natalism and argues that many of them are compatible with Christianity. It also develops a risk-based argument suggesting...
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Palgrave Macmillan
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2026-01-01
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We have become superheroes. Nothing can resist us anymore: not persons, ideas, facts, realities, or beings.We owe our superhuman strength to a tool we have taken up that submits everything to the scrutiny of our judgment: critique. After its first formulation at the end...
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Polity
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2025-12-30
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Intimacy can be joyous, but also confusing and socially constrained. This book reveals how philosophy can deepen our understanding of how we date, fall in love, have sex, and form relationships.Brunning and McKeever explore some of today’s significant questions around...
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Polity
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2025-12-30
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In his last major work, prominent critical race theorist Charles W. Mills offers a searing analysis of the shortcomings of liberal political ideology. With a focus on John Rawls, the pre-eminent liberal political philosopher of the last 50 years, Mills critiques the...
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Oxford University Press
Parution :
2025-12-23
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