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From the time he was a little boy, David Bard loved to make up stories. Even before he could read and write, he drew pictures of the stories he imagined. As he grew older, everything around David sparked his imagination. He wrote about the subjects he was studying and the class trips he took and, of course, his cherished companion, a little pug. David Bard was a good story teller.

Eine Entdeckungsreise durch die Welt der politischen Theorien und Stromungen, Staatsformen und gesellschaftlichen Herausforderungen

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In einer Zeit weitverbreiteter Politikverdrossenheit und vielfaltiger internationaler Verwerfungen ist die Notwendigkeit, die grundlegenden politischen Konzepte zu verstehen, groer denn je. 50 Schlusselideen Politik ist der ideale Einstieg in dieses Themenfeld.

Die Welt ist zusammengewachsen - und zugleich unuberschaubar komplex geworden. In allen Spharen der Politik wirken vielfaltige Einflusse, auf...

50 Schlusselideen der Menschheit ist der perfekte Fuhrer zu den wichtigsten Gedanken und Konzepten, die Menschen im Laufe der Jahrhunderte entwickelt haben. In funfzig leicht verstandlichen Essays fuhrt uns Ben Dupre an die einflussreichsten Konzepte und Ideen in Politik, Philosophie, Religion, Wirtschaft, Naturwissenschaft und Kunst heran. Einige davon erscheinen unanfechtbar, andere hochkomplex, wieder andere mysterios oder nachgerade gefahrlich und verachtenswert. Allen gemeinsam ist, dass sie in der Geschichte der Menschheit eine bedeutsame Rolle gespielt und die menschliche...

Written throughout Louis Dupré’s life, Thinking the Unknowable explores the relationship between faith and metaphysics, charting the course for an innovative Christian philosophy of religion.

Louis Dupré’s Thinking the Unknowable offers a sophisticated response to the subjectivist ills of modern philosophy. Drawing on a diverse host of philosophers, theologians, and phenomenologists, Dupré seeks to open up a space for faith in contemporary philosophy of religion by arguing that metaphysics cannot claim authority in the realm of the...

This book explores the interconnections and differentiations between artisanal workshops and alchemical laboratories and between the arts and alchemy from Antiquity to the eighteenth century. In particular, it scrutinizes epistemic exchanges between producers of the arts and alchemists. In the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries the term laboratorium uniquely referred to workplaces in which 'chemical' operations were performed: smelting, combustion, distillation, dissolution and precipitation. Artisanal workshops equipped with furnaces and fire in which 'chemical' operations were...

"Religion and the Rise of Modern Culture" describes and analyzes changing attitudes toward religion during three stages of modern European culture: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, and the Romantic period. Louis Dupre is an expert guide to the complex historical and intellectual relation between religion and modern culture.Dupre begins by tracing the weakening of the Christian synthesis. At the end of the Middle Ages intellectual attitudes toward religion began to change. Theology, once the dominant science that had integrated all others, lost its commanding position. After the French...