Critique of Western Philosophy and Social Theory
ISBN: 9781349383238 / Angielski / Miękka / 287 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The "existential" drama at the heart of the modern world is the result of a truly cataclysmic transformation in our institutions and modes of belief. It rivals in scope and significance, if it does not surpass, the transformation occasioned by the "Scientific Revolution" of the sixteenth and seventeenth century. Few can still doubt - even if they do not yet appreciate - the comprehensive and global scope of this "Second Scientific Revolution." Our fundamental modes of thought and action, institutional structure, personal identity, economic development, and relation to nature, all require...
The "existential" drama at the heart of the modern world is the result of a truly cataclysmic transformation in our institutions and modes of belief. ...
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Japanese Environmental Philosophy
ISBN: 9780190456320 / Angielski / Twarda / 338 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese thought, including Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, the Kyoto School, Japanese art and aesthetics, and traditional Japanese culture.
Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese ph...
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532,29 zł |
Routledge Revivals: The Hour of Decision (1934): Germany and World-Historical Evolution
ISBN: 9781138289208 / Angielski / Twarda / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in 1934, the ideas in this book were developed just prior to the Nazi seizure of power and it also reflects on its aftermath. It assessed the decline of European power and the crisis of Western civilization in the face of conflict between the ruling class and the lowers classes in white nations, and the Coloured World Revolution arguing that only by adherence to their inherited Prussianism would Germany have the solidity to be able to combat these dangers. Despite the influence of his previous writings of key Nazi figures, his criticisms of National Socialism in this book... First published in 1934, the ideas in this book were developed just prior to the Nazi seizure of power and it also reflects on its aftermath. It as... |
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Socio-Biological Implications of Confucianism
ISBN: 9783662525586 / Angielski / Miękka / 226 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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576,25 zł |
Cyborg Theology: Humans, Technology and God
ISBN: 9781784537876 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The concept of the cyborg, or cybernetic organism, has led to notably creative explorations of the ambiguous relationship between human beings and technology.
The concept of the cyborg, or cybernetic organism, has led to notably creative explorations of the ambiguous relationship between human beings and tec...
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The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental
ISBN: 9780813590516 / Angielski / Twarda / 152 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the "Axial Age" of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world's major religious and intellectual developments first emerged, was only one of three such decisive periods that can be used to directly affect present social problems, from economic inequality to ecological destruction.
Torpey's argument advances the idea that there are in fact three "Axial Ages," instead of one original Axial Age and several subsequent,... How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey propo...
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676,35 zł |
Community: The Missing Manual, Stage 9 (b/w): Celebration
ISBN: 9781535347259 / Angielski / Miękka / 34 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. No matter what else might be going on, there is always something to celebrate...and celebrate we did, from the creation of new ways to tend wild jungle grounds to picking up never-before-held instruments and co-creating spontaneous music jams. Part personal stories, part how-to manual, with lots of pix from our evolution Available in e-editions and color or b/w print paperbacks.
No matter what else might be going on, there is always something to celebrate...and celebrate we did, from the creation of new ways to tend wild jungl...
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The Idea of a League of Nations
ISBN: 9781473333352 / Angielski / Miękka / 54 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. First published in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1919, this article represents the initial efforts of "League of Free Nations Association"-the precursor to the League of Nations-to assess and solve the principal problems of Universal Peace. Among those who collaborated on this paper is are H. G. Wells, H. Wickham Steed, Viscount Grey, Gilbert Murray, Lionel Curtis, and J. A. Spender, among others. Highly recommended for those with an interest in modern world history and the formation of the League of Nations. Herbert George Wells (1866 - 1946) was a prolific English writer who wrote in a variety...
First published in "The Atlantic Monthly" in 1919, this article represents the initial efforts of "League of Free Nations Association"-the precursor t...
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Roger Waters and Pink Floyd: The Concept Albums
ISBN: 9781611477627 / Angielski / Miękka / 242 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional notation-centric musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and construction of meaning within the extended musical multimedia works of the classic British group Pink Floyd. Encompassing the concept albums that the group released from 1973 to 1983, during Roger Waters final period with the band, chapters are devoted to Dark Side of the Moon (1973), Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), The Wall (1979) and The Final Cut (1983), along with Waters third solo album Amused to Death (1993). This book's analysis of album...
Beyond its elucidation and critique of traditional notation-centric musicology, this book's primary emphasis is on the negotiation and construction of...
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201,89 zł |
Japanese Environmental Philosophy
ISBN: 9780190456337 / Angielski / Miękka / 336 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese philosophical traditions to investigate our relationships with other humans, nonhuman animals, and the environment. It contains chapters from fifteen top scholars from Japan, the United States, and Europe. The essays cover a broad range of Japanese thought, including Zen Buddhism, Shintoism, the Kyoto School, Japanese art and aesthetics, and traditional Japanese culture.
Japanese Environmental Philosophy is an anthology that responds to the environmental problems of the 21st century by drawing from Japanese ph...
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250,16 zł |
On Human Nature
ISBN: 9780691168753 / Angielski / Twarda / 160 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philosopher Roger Scruton presents an original and radical defense of human uniqueness. Confronting the views of evolutionary psychologists, utilitarian moralists, and philosophical materialists such as Richard Dawkins and Daniel Dennett, Scruton argues that human beings cannot be understood simply as biological objects. We are not only human animals; we are also persons, in essential relation with other persons, and bound to them by obligations and... A brief, radical defense of human uniqueness from acclaimed philosopher Roger Scruton In this short book, acclaimed writer and philoso... |
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106,26 zł |
The Agony of Eros
ISBN: 9780262533379 / Angielski / Miękka / 88 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus Gabriel and Armen Avanessian. In The Agony of Eros, a bestseller in Germany, Han considers the threat to love and desire in today's society. For Han, love requires the courage to accept self-negation for the sake of discovering the Other. In a world of fetishized individualism and technologically mediated social interaction, it is the Other that is eradicated, not the self. In today's increasingly narcissistic society, we have come to... Byung-Chul Han is one of the most widely read philosophers in Europe today, a member of the new generation of German thinkers that includes Markus ... |
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The Three Axial Ages: Moral, Material, Mental
ISBN: 9780813590509 / Angielski / Miękka / 118 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey proposes that the "Axial Age" of the first millennium BCE, when some of the world's major religious and intellectual developments first emerged, was only one of three such decisive periods that can be used to directly affect present social problems, from economic inequality to ecological destruction.
Torpey's argument advances the idea that there are in fact three "Axial Ages," instead of one original Axial Age and several subsequent,... How should we think about the "shape" of human history since the birth of cities, and where are we headed? Sociologist and historian John Torpey propo...
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Cultural Patterns and Neurocognitive Circuits: East-West Connections
ISBN: 9789813147485 / Angielski / Twarda / 212 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the others': other people and their cultures by 'indirect knowledge' — learning about them via the global information net assisted by electronic and other high-tech communication channels, as well as by 'direct knowledge': personally visiting various parts of the world and meeting local people in their own natural and social environments.East and West, two major worlds of aspirations, cultures, world-views, theoretical and practical approaches to life and death,...
Our age is characterized by global access to information, places and cultures: we can gain more and more knowledge about 'the others': other people an...
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Moral Reasons: An Introduction to Ethics and Critical Thinking
ISBN: 9780761868422 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Distinguished by its readability and scope, Moral Reasons explains how to think critically about issues in ethics and political philosophy. After a detailed overview of moral reasoning―including dozens of exercises―the text guides readers through the theories and arguments of philosophers from Plato to Peter Singer. Among the topics explored are moral skepticism, abortion, euthanasia, vegetarianism, political authority, punishment, and war. Ideal as a main text for courses in introductory or applied ethics or as a supplemental text for courses in political philosophy, this book...
Distinguished by its readability and scope, Moral Reasons explains how to think critically about issues in ethics and political philosophy. After a de...
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227,45 zł |
Theorizing Race in the Americas: Douglass, Sarmiento, Du Bois, and Vasconcelos
ISBN: 9780190633691 / Angielski / Twarda / 296 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist leader, and orator from the United States, Frederick Douglass - both published their first works. Each would become the most famous and enduring texts in what were both prolific careers, and they ensured Sarmiento and Douglass' position as leading figures in the canon of Latin American and U.S. African-American political thought, respectively. But despite the fact that both deal directly with key political and philosophical questions in the...
In 1845 two thinkers from the American hemisphere - the Argentinean statesman Domingo Faustino Sarmiento, and the fugitive ex-slave, abolitionist lead...
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Humanity Without Dignity: Moral Equality, Respect, and Human Rights
ISBN: 9780674049215 / Angielski / Twarda / 286 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Name any valued human trait--intelligence, wit, charm, grace, strength--and you will find an inexhaustible variety and complexity in its expression among individuals. Yet we insist that such diversity does not provide grounds for differential treatment at the most basic level. Whatever merit, blame, praise, love, or hate we receive as beings with a particular past and a particular constitution, we are always and everywhere due equal respect merely as persons. But why? Most who attempt to answer this question appeal to the idea that all human beings possess an intrinsic dignity and... Name any valued human trait--intelligence, wit, charm, grace, strength--and you will find an inexhaustible variety and complexity in its expression... |
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The Schutzian Theory of the Cultural Sciences
ISBN: 9783319364032 / Angielski / Miękka / 211 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This work is devoted to developing as well as expounding the theory of the cultural sciences of the philosopher Alfred Schutz (1899-1959).
This work is devoted to developing as well as expounding the theory of the cultural sciences of the philosopher Alfred Schutz (1899-1959).
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Philosophico-Methodological Analysis of Prediction and Its Role in Economics
ISBN: 9783319380056 / Angielski / Miękka / 362 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Prediction plays a key role in economics in various ways. It can be seen as a basic science, as an applied science and in the application of this science. First, it is used by economic theory in order to test the available knowledge. In this regard, prediction has been presented as the scientific test for economics as a science. Second, prediction provides a content regarding the possible future that can be used for prescription in applied economics. Thus, it can be used as a guide for... This book develops a philosophico-methodological analysis of prediction and its role in economics. Prediction plays a key role in economics in vari... |
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Beyond Speech: Pornography and Analytic Feminist Philosophy
ISBN: 9780190257910 / Angielski / Twarda / 290 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of eleven new essays contains the latest developments in analytic feminist philosophy on the topic of pornography. While honoring early feminist work on the subject, it aims to go beyond speech act analyses of pornography and to reshape the philosophical discourse that surrounds pornography.
A rich feminist literature on pornography has emerged since the 1980s, with Rae Langton's speech act theoretic analysis dominating specifically Anglo-American feminist philosophy on pornography. Despite the predominance of this literature, there remain considerable disagreements and... This collection of eleven new essays contains the latest developments in analytic feminist philosophy on the topic of pornography. While honoring earl...
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580,10 zł |