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Make each of your days meaningful using Seneca's immortal guidance In On the Shortness of Life: The Stoic Classic, Tom Butler-Bowdon introduces the work of Lucius Annaeus Seneca, an ancient Roman philosopher who wrote on the fleeting nature of existence and the need to...
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Wiley
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2024-07-23
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Capstone Classics
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This book traces the contours of the symbiotic relationship between crop cultivation and cattle rearing in India by reading against the grain of several official accounts from the late colonial period to the 1980s. It also skillfully unpacks the multiple cultural...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-21
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This book addresses death and immortality by paralleling Plato’s philosophy of ‘becoming like God’ through exercising one’s intellect and virtues, with the Greek archaic and heroic way of gaining immortal glory through remarkable deeds. In doing so, this study focuses...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-16
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This book offers a theory of ekphrasis—the literary description of an artwork—from the perspective of Visual Culture studies. A theory of ekphrasis must take into account not only the rhetorical strategies articulated in the description of artworks, but also...
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Springer
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2024-07-15
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Supercharge your confidence, enhance your well-being and live life as your best self with the help of this modern guide to the ancient art of StoicismWhether you seek greatness or joy, self-knowledge or self-control, the Stoic philosophy can teach you how to exercise...
Editeur :
Vie
Parution :
2024-07-11
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« Ecco il modo in cui il filosofo Miklos Vetö legge la propria vita: un insieme di continuità e discontinuità che hanno saputo trovare una sintesi feconda tra il vecchio e il nuovo. Oltre ad accompagnare un pensiero originalissimo e una produzione prolifica, la storia...
Editeur :
Editions L'Harmattan
Parution :
2024-07-11
Collection :
Harmattan Italia
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Moving beyond traditional critical ethnography, postcritical ethnographies accept as a key premise that studies which are critical of the social world must also turn critique back on the ethnographer, the study, and its process. The book includes an introduction to the...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-07-11
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What position does America occupy in the recent history of Western philosophy? At once the destination for a series of fantasies and the place from which a new relationship to thought originated, America incarnates a dark continent whose strangeness and singularity has...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-09
Collection :
Theory Redux
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G. A. Cohen was one of the towering political philosophers of the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. His intellectual career was unusually wide-ranging, and he was celebrated internationally not only for his penetrating ideas about liberty, justice and...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-07-09
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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This book proposes a methodology for formulating a sovereign field of Academic Native American Philosophy. In this groundbreaking metaphilosophical work, the author identifies several recurrent themes in Indigenous North American cultures and argues that such themes can...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-07-08
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This book explores the key conceptual stakes underpinning historical epistemology. The strong Anglophone interest in historical epistemology, since at least the 1990s, is typically attributed to its simultaneously philosophical and historical synthetic approach to the...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-06-27
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Die Kunst der stoischen Ruhe In einer hektischen Welt geprägt von Reizüberflutung und endlosen To-Do-Listen gibt es ein jahrhundertealtes Gegenmittel: Stoizismus. Entdecken Sie eine zeitlose Philosophie, die Ihnen einen Weg zur inneren Ruhe und mehr Gelassenheit...
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Wiley-VCH
Parution :
2024-06-27
Collection :
Für Dummies
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Learn how Captain America's timeless ethical code is just as relevant in the twenty-first century as it was during the 1940s Captain America, or simply “Cap,” provides an example of the virtues that define personal excellence, as well as the ideals and principles upon...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Parution :
2024-06-26
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In this book, the authors review Foucault’s philosophy on power and ethics to investigate the possibility of restructuring freedom available to the subject. Foucault’s Kantian inspired view of critique as an art of voluntary inservitude, of reflective indocility is...
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Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers
Parution :
2024-06-21
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This book delves into the long-standing human aspiration to combine art and science. In six chapters, The Art-Science Symbiosis outlines new approaches to understand current scientific practice in general and art-science in particular, showcasing how contemporary art...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-20
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Susanna Rustin's Sexed is a radical retelling of the story of British feminism. Starting in the revolutionary 1790s and ending in the present day, she introduces the 1830s radicals who demanded “LIBERTY FOR EVER!”, Victorian petitioners who expected to be dead before...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-06-12
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This text is the first comprehensive attempt in decades to integrate reading into the philosophical discussion of the synthesis of experience more generally. It offers a comprehensive critique of three disciplinary approaches to reading: philosophical, literary and...
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Springer
Parution :
2024-06-10
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Byung-Chul Han is one of the most important living philosophers, renowned for his critiques of the digital age. In response to the idea that new technological devices expand our freedom, he argues that they lead to burnout and self-absorption and that we must redevelop...
Editeur :
Polity
Parution :
2024-06-07
Collection :
Key Contemporary Thinkers
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Once there were princes and peasants and very few between. The extremes of wealth and poverty are still with us, but that shouldn't blind us to the fact our societies have been utterly transformed for the better over the past century. As Daniel Waldenström makes clear...
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Polity
Parution :
2024-06-07
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This volume is a collection of essays related to the work of Professor Yuriy Vasilievich Ivlev, a distinguished Russian logician and philosopher renowned for his expertise in many-valued and modal logics. Notably, his groundbreaking work on quasi-matrices for...
Editeur :
Springer
Parution :
2024-06-05
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