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POETICS OF ALTERITY Education today is commonly oriented towards citizenship and skills for life, with aims of happiness and wellbeing. But this benign image harbours surreptitious forms of control, which ultimately undermine the goods it professes to safeguard and...
Editeur :
Wiley
Parution :
2022-11-03
Collection :
Journal of Philosophy of Education
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This book addresses the topic of 'being bound' from a philosophical and a sociological perspective. It examines several ways in which we are bound. We are bound to acknowledge the truth and to follow laws; we are bound to others and to the world. Who we are is partly...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-11-01
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The essential offers a systematic guide to a fruitful reading of Rorty. At the same time, it provides a brief introduction to the main features of Richard Rorty's neopragmatism.The author proposes to read it as a fragile balance of pragmatism and romanticism by which...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-31
Collection :
essentials
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In this hyperconnected, dynamic world we live in, permeated by profound challenges and transformations, the awareness of complexity is unequivocally on the rise. This monograph argues that it is high time that our educational institutions and pedagogical approaches come...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-28
Collection :
Sustainable Development Goals Series
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The study shows the reception of the views of Pseudo-Dionysius Areopagite by Gregory Palamas.The author presents the doctrinal context of Palamas' dispute with Barlaam from Calabria on the possibility of knowing God, the most important issue in 14th-century Byzantium....
Editeur :
Peter Lang GmbH, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften
Parution :
2022-10-28
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This book analyzes the relation between the flow time and poetic speech in drama and rhetoric. It begins with the classical understanding of time as flux, and its problems and paradoxes entailing from Aristotle, Augustine, Kant and Husserl. The reader will see how these...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-25
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This book examines Husserl’s approach to the question concerning meaning in life and demonstrates that his philosophy includes a phenomenology of existence. Given his critique of the fashionable “philosophy of existence” of the late 1920s and early 1930s, one might...
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Springer
Parution :
2022-10-25
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This book, a rich collection authored by rhetorical scholars, unpacks how rhetoric contributes to argumentation studies. It begins with an introduction that identifies defining features of a rhetorical approach to argumentation which has several corollaries,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-22
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The time of the landscape is not the time when people started describing gardens, mountains and lakes in poems or representing them in works of art: it is the time when the landscape imposed itself as a specific object of thought. It is the time when both the harmony of...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-19
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Discover fascinating and illuminating contributions to historical and contemporary issues in the philosophy of mind In the newly revised second edition of This Is Philosophy of Mind: An Introduction, accomplished philosopher Pete Mandik delivers an accessible primer on...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-10-14
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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A timeless study of politics and society by one of the all-time greatest thinkers.A student of Plato, Aristotle is considered a founding father of philosophy and ethics. This reflection on the role of government, and an individual's role within it, remains as prescient...
Editeur :
OH
Parution :
2022-10-13
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Phenomenology is one of the leading movements in twentieth-century philosophy and continues to exert a strong influence on many contemporary philosophical traditions and investigations. In recent years, phenomenological insights have been increasingly developed in...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-10-11
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Provides students and general readers with a basic understanding of the central concepts, issues, and thinkers of the early modern era of philosophy Is there a world that exists apart from ourselves? If an external world exists, what is its nature? Can an external world...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-10-06
Collection :
This is Philosophy
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This book offers the first comprehensive collection of essays on the key concepts of Kitaro Nishida (1870-1945), the father of modern Japanese philosophy and founder of the Kyoto School. The essays analyze several of the major philosophical concepts in Nishida,...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-05
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This brief treatise explores the common threads to psychoanalytic thought and theological theory. It uses a psychoanalytic lens to examine Judeo/Christian concepts of individual will, consciousness and the unconscious, and the apparent confounding idea of sin. What is...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-04
Collection :
SpringerBriefs in Psychology
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This book focuses on some English-speaking women philosophers who have been major actors since the 20th century in the field of practical philosophy, namely political and social philosophy, feminist approaches to philosophy, moral psychology, the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-10-03
Collection :
Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning
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A comprehensive yet accessible account of the major figures and movements of modern European philosophy Modern European Philosophers explores the great Western thinkers of the seventeenth, eighteenth, and nineteenth centuries. Author Wayne Pomerleau presents a thorough...
Editeur :
Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2022-10-03
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This book brings together Antonio Negri’s critical writings on the nature and form of the modern state. The central theme that runs through these writings is our need to be done with the sovereign state – that is, with the particular form of political power that the...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-09-30
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The relation between humans and nature is at the core of the great existential threats of our time, from climate change, extreme weather, and environmental destruction to devastating pandemics. We are becoming increasingly aware of the fact that, unless we change our...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2022-09-29
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This volume presents eco-phenomenology’s role in pandemics and post-pandemics and takes up the task of eco-phenomenology as a unified project by not focusing on naturalizing phenomenology but rather exploring the full range of possibilities - such as creative acts and...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2022-09-29
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