Reference/World History "Consistently informative, lively, and accurate . . . a pathbreaking achievement." --The New York Times Book Review s the world's axes of population, power, and commerce shift from North to South and from West to East, the old Eurocentric model of culture is giving way to a new global paradigm. This dictionary, which has been compiled by two of our most esteemed scholars, is the first work of its kind to devote equal emphasis to the cultural contributions of the non-Western world alongside those of Europe and North America. Prepared by regional experts from...
Reference/World History "Consistently informative, lively, and accurate . . . a pathbreaking achievement." --The New York Times Book Review s ...
In the past few decades, scientists of human nature--including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, and behavioral economists--have explored the way we arrive at moral judgments. They have called into question commonplaces about character and offered troubling explanations for various moral intuitions. Research like this may help explain what, in fact, we do and feel. But can it tell us what we ought to do or feel? In Experiments in Ethics, the philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah explores how the new empirical moral psychology relates to...
In the past few decades, scientists of human nature--including experimental and cognitive psychologists, neuroscientists, evolutionary theorists, a...
Challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. This work revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolitanism, which dates back to the Cynics of the 4th century, as a means of understanding the complex world.
Challenges the separatist doctrines which have come to dominate our understanding of the world. This work revives the ancient philosophy of Cosmopolit...
From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are riddled with contradiction.
From the best-selling author of Cosmopolitanism comes this revealing exploration of how the collective identities that shape our polarized world are r...
V tomto průkopnickém díle Kwame Anthony Appiah, mnohými považovaný za jednoho z nejdůležitějších filozofů dnešní doby (New York Times Book Review), mění způsob, jakým chápeme lidské chování i to, jak dochází k sociálním reformám. Pomocí oslnivé argumentace ukazuje, že nová demokratická hnutí v posledním století nebyla vedena zákonnými opatřeními shora. Zabývá se ukončením instituce souboje v aristokratické Anglii, bouřlivými boji o ukončení svazování chodidel v Číně 19. století, povstáním obyčejných lidí proti hrůzám...
V tomto průkopnickém díle Kwame Anthony Appiah, mnohými považovaný za jednoho z nejdůležitějších filozofů dnešní doby (New York Times Bo...
