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For more than 30 years, Judith Butler's thesis that gender is constructed has led to unresolved misunderstandings and conflicting interpretations. This work engages with Butler's constructivism epistemologically and develops the thesis that Butler is misunderstood for...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-09-11
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A spectre is haunting us: fear. We are constantly confronted with apocalyptic scenarios: pandemics, world war, the climate catastrophe. Images of the end of the world and the end of human civilization are conjured up with ever greater urgency. Anxiously, we face a bleak...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-09-09
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A philosophical exploration of Joker and the meaning of the iconic antagonist's murderous escapadesA diabolically sinister but clownish villain, Joker is a symbolically rich and philosophically fascinating character. Both crazed and cunning, sadistically cruel but...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-09-04
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The Blackwell Philosophy and Pop Culture Series
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This book expands the known canon by presenting arguments and concepts from women philosophers, from all periods of the history of philosophy, from antiquity to the present day. The collaborative collection is an undertaking that emerged from intensive discussions on...
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Springer
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2024-08-30
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This book provides a critical outlook on, and an inquiry into the practical implications of, the works of Professor W.J. Waluchow, one of the most important jurisprudence scholars of the early twenty-first century, while also reflecting on the interconnections between...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-28
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Is it a contradiction, a lie, a madness, a freedom to affirm a theory and live the opposite?
Rousseau writes a treatise on education thanks to the abandonment of his five children, Kierkegaard composes religious texts while living as a libertine, Beauvoir founds the...
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Max Milo Editions
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2024-08-28
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This book founds an other Platonist beginning by repositioning Plato and Neoplatonism in Heidegger’s history of metaphysics.This beginning begins with Plato and culminates in Heidegger. By revisiting Heidegger’s interpretation of Plato and retrieving Neoplatonist...
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Peter Lang Ltd, International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-08-26
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From the fraught world of geopolitics to business and the academy, it’s more vital than ever that Westerners and East Asians understand how each other thinks. As Jin Li shows in this groundbreaking work, the differences run deep. Li explores the philosophical origins of...
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Polity
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2024-08-26
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Aus der Sicht der Neurobiologie regiert im Kopf das neuronale Geschehen. Doch was wissen die Hirnforscher genau über die Mechanismen des Hirngeschehens und ihren Einfluss auf den menschlichen Geist? Dieser Frage geht Brigitte Falkenburg nach.
Die Physik hat sich längst...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-24
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What role does the organisation of labour relations play in the health of a democratic society? Axel Honneth’s major new work is devoted to answering this question. His central thesis is that participation in democratic will formation can only proceed from a...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-08-20
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Faced with growing inequalities and new forms of domination and exploitation, can the movement of emancipation take on a new life today, or has it been arrested by the powers of repression and normalization? In order to address this question, Jacques Rancière pays...
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Polity
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2024-08-20
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Utilitarianism – a commitment to ‘the greatest happiness for the greatest number’ – has been the target of endless opposition. According to its critics, it ignores the separateness of persons, cannot secure the protections of basic rights, demands extreme sacrifice, can...
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Polity
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2024-08-20
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Philosophical Writing helps students to think clearly and analytically, improve their essay-writing skills, and present their knowledge and thoughts in a precise and coherent manner. Acclaimed for its accessible, highly practical approach, this bestselling textbook...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-08-15
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This volume offers the most comprehensive introduction to the ideas of ancient Chinese thinkers who looked to perfect a political system thru the emphasis on impersonal standards, laws, and norms (fa). This book covers the works of these thinkers, misleadingly...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-14
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Dieses Buch geht von der Frage aus, wie Bilder erscheinen und in ihrem Geschehen als Bild auf etwas hinweisen, das mit dem Phänomen selbst nicht zusammenfällt. Es wendet sich zunächst Husserls Analysen zum Bildbewusstsein zu und zeigt anhand einiger seiner Anmerkungen,...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-07
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A New York Times bestselling author and veteran Fox Business financial journalist’s explosive deep-dive into the progressive madness that has infected and corrupted the world’s biggest corporations, threatening the stability of the global economy—and...
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Center Street
Parution :
2024-08-06
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This book presents the idea of the gift of bonds as the core intuition of phenomenology, constituting it into that method of philosophical research that Husserl had in mind when he characterized phenomenology as the culmination and fulfillment of Western philosophy. The...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-08-01
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This book delves into the profound question of whether moral philosophy rests upon metaphysical foundations. Contrary to the assertions of moral relativists such as John Mackie and Bernard Williams, who contend that ethics is devoid of metaphysical grounding, this work...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-27
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This book provides an in-depth analysis of the nature and role of hypothetical reasoning about impossibilities. The interest in this subject stems from the simple observation that wondering is an inherent aspect of our experience. Whether one regrets choosing a taxicab...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-26
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This book is dedicated to Dick de Jongh’s contributions to the theory of intuitionistic and provability logics. Consisting of 13 chapters, written by leading experts, this book discusses de Jongh’s original contributions and consequent developments that have...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-07-25
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