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The Turn to Ethics
ISBN: 9780415922258 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Based on a conference held at the Center for Literary Studies at Harvard University, this collection of essays from scholars in literature, philosophy, politics, and medicine seeks to shed new light on the wide range of ethical debates raging today; from bioethics and the ethics of political action to the ethics of reading and making distinctions between morality and ethics.
Based on a conference held at the Center for Literary Studies at Harvard University, this collection of essays from scholars in literature, philosophy...
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710,17 |
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When Bad Things Happen to Other People
ISBN: 9780415923347 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Drawing on the teachings of history's prominent philosophers, the author explores the concept of Schadenfreude in this comprehensive study.
Drawing on the teachings of history's prominent philosophers, the author explores the concept of Schadenfreude in this comprehensive study.
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710,17 |
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When Bad Things Happen to Other People
ISBN: 9780415923354 / Angielski / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How can we derive pleasure from others' suffering? Portmann explores Schadenfreude, drawing on writers and thinkers such as Kant, Freud and Toni Morrison and challenging us to re-examine feelings about suffering, sympathy and justice.
How can we derive pleasure from others' suffering? Portmann explores Schadenfreude, drawing on writers and thinkers such as Kant, Freud and Toni Morri...
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190,96 |
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What Happens to History : The Renewal of Ethics in COntemporary Thought
ISBN: 9780415925624 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the question and status of ethics in light of the current return to ethics underway in a variety of critical fields. By assembling the work of nine leading critics from disciplines including philosophy, women's studies, cultural studies, anthropology, literary studies and history, this collection should help to frame the conversation on the status of ethics in the coming years.
This work offers a multi-disciplinary investigation of the question and status of ethics in light of the current return to ethics underway in a variet...
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122,40 |
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Achieving Our Humanity: The Idea of the Postracial Future
ISBN: 9780415929417 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Achieving Our Humanity explores a postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and political experiences of race in the past and what this might mean for our present and, most importantly, our future.
Achieving Our Humanity explores a postracial future through a philosophical analysis of the social, cultural, economic and political experien...
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273,19 |
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Paul Ricoeur and Contemporary Moral Thought
ISBN: 9780415938433 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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710,17 |
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The Continental Ethics Reader
ISBN: 9780415943291 / Angielski / Twarda / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Continental Ethics Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental thought. The selected readings are divided into five sections: phenomenology and hermeneutics, existentialism, critical theory, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and feminism. All of the authors and their writings are introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors.
The Continental Ethics Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental th...
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685,68 |
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The Continental Ethics Reader
ISBN: 9780415943307 / Angielski / Miękka / 299 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Continental Ethics Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental thought. The selected readings are divided into five sections: phenomenology and hermeneutics, existentialism, critical theory, postmodernism, psychoanalysis and feminism. All of the authors and their writings are introduced and placed in philosophical context by the editors.
The Continental Ethics Reader is a comprehensive anthology of classic writings on ethics and moral philosophy from the major figures in Continental th...
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279,12 |
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Awe for the Tiger, Love for the Lamb: A Chronicle of Sensibility to Animals
ISBN: 9780415943635 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our compassion towards Earth's other beasts. This book compiles the most significant statements of sensibility to animals in the history of thought. From the myths of the ancient world to the Middle Ages to Darwin and beyond, it captures the most telling accounts of humankind's relationship to the wild world, placing them in historical context. Jung called it an unconscious identity with animals, while Wordsworth saw it as the primal sympathy which...
Respect for animals has always been a part of human consciousness. Poets, thinkers, philosophers, scientists and statesmen have long celebrated our co...
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215,45 |
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Maat, The Moral Ideal in Ancient Egypt : A Study in Classical African Ethics
ISBN: 9780415947534 / Angielski / Twarda / 480 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt, this title seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at the same time preserving and building on its distinctiveness as a moral ideal capable of inspiring and maintaining ethical philosophic reflection.
A critical examination of Maat, the moral ideal in ancient Egypt, this title seeks to present Maat in the language of modern moral discourse while at ...
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832,62 |
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Needs and Moral Necessity
ISBN: 9780415960359 / Angielski / Twarda / 171 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue ethics, and argues for a fourth needs-based theory. Needs and Moral Necessity analyses ethics as a practice, explains why we have three moral theory-types, consequentialism, deontology and virtue eth... |
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824,88 |
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What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question
ISBN: 9780415966153 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like is the first volume in which the subject is addressed by African-American philosophers. George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issue of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis. What does white look like when viewed through philosophical training and African-American experience? In this volume, Robert Birt asks if whites can 'live whiteness authentically'. Janine Jones examines what it means to be a goodwill white. Joy James tells of beating her 'addiction' to white...
In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like is the first volume in which the subject is addressed by African-American philosop...
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759,15 |
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What White Looks Like: African-American Philosophers on the Whiteness Question
ISBN: 9780415966160 / Angielski / Miękka / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like is the first volume in which the subject is addressed by African-American philosophers. George Yancy has brought together a group of thinkers who address the problematic issue of whiteness as a category requiring serious analysis. What does white look like when viewed through philosophical training and African-American experience? In this volume, Robert Birt asks if whites can 'live whiteness authentically'. Janine Jones examines what it means to be a goodwill white. Joy James tells of beating her 'addiction' to white...
In the burgeoning field of whiteness studies, What White Looks Like is the first volume in which the subject is addressed by African-American philosop...
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244,84 |
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Hope: New Philosophies for Change
ISBN: 9780415966597 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
First published in 2003. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
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205,65 |
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Refractions of Violence
ISBN: 9780415966658 / Angielski / Twarda / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Refractions of Violence collects essays of leading cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects, from Walter Benjamin's response to World War I to the Holocaust and the events of 9/11, this collection addresses the troubling issues of the intersection of violence and visual culture. It argues that we live in a closed economy of violence in which no outside can provide us with a safe haven from the treat of sudden, perhaps even fatal injury, either real or symbolic. By examining a number of ways in which the dialectic of violence and...
Refractions of Violence collects essays of leading cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects, fro...
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710,17 |
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Refractions of Violence
ISBN: 9780415966665 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Refractions of Violence collects the recent essays of leading cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay. Ranging over a wide variety of subjects, from Walter Benjamin's response to World War I to the Holocaust and the events of 9/11, this collection addresses the troubling issues of the intersection of violence and visual culture. It argues that we live in a closed economy of violence in which no outside can provide us with a safe haven from the treat of sudden, perhaps even fatal injury, either real or symbolic. By examining a number of ways in which the dialectic of violence and...
Refractions of Violence collects the recent essays of leading cultural critic and intellectual historian Martin Jay. Ranging over a wide variety of su...
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259,53 |
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A History of Western Ethics
ISBN: 9780415968249 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This newly revised and updated edition of A History of Western Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas of the history of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition.
This newly revised and updated edition of A History of Western Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important fi...
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710,17 |
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A History of Western Ethics
ISBN: 9780415968256 / Angielski / Miękka / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This newly revised and updated edition of A History of Western Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important figures and influential ideas of the history of ethics in the Western philosophical tradition.
This newly revised and updated edition of A History of Western Ethics is a coherent and accessible overview of the most important fi...
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220,35 |
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Emmanuel Levinas: Ethics, Justice and the Human Beyond Being
ISBN: 9780415971249 / Angielski / Twarda / 216 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist philosophy of the twentieth century.
This book explores Levinas's rethinking of the meaning of ethics, justice and the human from a position that affirms but goes beyond the anti-humanist...
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710,17 |
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Why It's Hard to Be Good
ISBN: 9780415972635 / Angielski / Twarda / 252 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In a series of brief chapters, Al Gini lays out ideas for 'stepping out of the shadow of the self' - an argument for stopping thinking of yourself as the centre of the universe. It's hard to be good, he explains, until we realize that being good only has meaning in relation to other people. Ideas of justice, fairness, and ethical behavior are just that - abstract ideas - until they are put into action with regard to people outside ourselves. We may worry too much about good versus evil - big concepts that give us plenty of room to sit on the right side of the equation, he argues. Instead,...
In a series of brief chapters, Al Gini lays out ideas for 'stepping out of the shadow of the self' - an argument for stopping thinking of yourself as ...
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259,53 |