Kategoria BISAC: Philosophy >> Movements - General

This book presents a review of Deleuze s key methods and concepts in the course of exploring how these methods may be applied in contemporary studies of health and illness. Taken from a Deleuzian perspective, health and wellbeing will be characterized as a discontinuous process of affective and relational transitions.

The book argues that health, conceived in terms of the quality of life, is advanced or facilitated in the provision of new affective sensitivities and new relational capacities. Following an assessment of Deleuze s key ideas, the book will offer a series of case studies...

Walking a fine line between madness and magnificence, Naked Raver is a true story that answers these questions and more. It is a real-life adventure that takes you on a journey into the faceless depths of existence, revealing a world...

This book takes a critical view on corporate practice, governmental action and the general approach to Corporate Social Responsibility. It draws on experience from the Workplace Innovation movement and argues that, as with motherhood and apple pie, it is hard to oppose CSR, with a community of well-meaning people. It is however necessary to challenge the foundations on which it is based.

Many accounts of CSR assume a consistent model of capitalism around the world. It is suggested that capitalism can be given a human face, as companies adopt programmes which go beyond the minimum...

This book deals with the cognitive foundation of the theory of social action. The social sciences are still guided by models of social action, far from the empirical reality of the psychology of action. While economics seems to have made greater progress in accepting the changes to the theory of action derived from cognitive science (see, for example, the 2002 Nobel prize for economics awarded to Daniel Kahneman), sociology is still being oriented on the dualism of hermeneutics vs. structuralism, which leaves very little room for a cognitive theory of social action.

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The End of Russian Philosophy describes and evaluates the troubled...

Das Buch ist eine kommentierte Quellensammlung zur Geschichte der Sozialpsychologie. Es verfolgt den Zweck, mittels des Studiums von Dokumenten aus der Geschichte und Vorgeschichte des Faches Reflexionen eigener theoretischer und praktischer Tatigkeit anzuregen. In 30 Abschnitten werden Texte vorgestellt, die von der griechischen Antike bis zur jungeren Vergangenheit reichen. Jedem Abschnitt werden Erlauterungen zum Stellenwert und wissenschaftshistorischen Kontext des jeweiligen Textes vorangestellt. Dabei werden insbesondere Arbeiten zur Theoriebildung, Beitrage zur Erschliessung von...