Roman für Jugendliche von 12–16 Jahren, auch als Klassenlektüre an weiterführenden Schulen geeignet, Fach: Deutsch, Förderunterricht, Klasse 7–10 +++ Leseschwache Schüler geben schnell frustriert auf, wenn die Lektüre zu schwer, zu lang und zu langweilig ist.
A groundbreaking history of the political ideas that made modern IndiaViolent Fraternity is a major history of the political thought that laid the foundations of modern India.
This book evaluates the current and future state of fascism studies, reflecting on the first hundred years of fascism and looking ahead to a new era in which fascism studies increasingly faces fresh questions concerning its relevance and the potential reappearance of fascism.
The Great Convergence explores the existential foundations of human consciousness and the deep existential dimensions of reality, as well as their connection to the concept of The Creator.
The first book to address the historical failures of philosophy-and what we can learn from themPhilosophers are generally unaware of the failures of philosophy, recognizing only the failures of particular theories, which are then remedied with other theories.
Based on fieldwork, archival research, and interviews, this book critically examines the building of modern Chinese discourse on a unified yet diverse Chinese nation on various sites of knowledge production.
Richard Fabers materialreiche Untersuchung zeigt, dass derKampfbegriff Abendland eine lange Vorgeschichte hat undpolitisch hoch belastet ist: nicht nur antikommunistisch undantisozialistisch, sondern auch antidemokratisch undantiliberal, autoritär bis faschistisch, elitär bis hierarchischund klerikal bis neopagan – vor allem aber imperialistisch.
This Palgrave Pivot presents a historical reflection about the development of sociology in Colombia from the late nineteenth century into the mid-twentieth century, a period in which the process of professionalization in the discipline occurred due to the creation of university training programs, as well as the extension of research centers and groups nationwide.
"e;The beauty and levity that Perry and Gabriele have captured in this book are what I think will help it to become a standard text for general audiences for years to come.
This collection of fourteen original essays by leading authorities offers, for the first time, a comprehensive overview of the significant authors and important aspects of fifteenth-century English poetry.
Zweifellos gehört Hannah Arendt zu den bekanntesten Deutschen, die während der NS-Herrschaft ausgebürgert wurden; sie war mehr als ein Jahrzehnt staatenlos.
Zweifellos gehört Hannah Arendt zu den bekanntesten Deutschen, die während der NS-Herrschaft ausgebürgert wurden; sie war mehr als ein Jahrzehnt staatenlos.
This book focuses on the most important utopian and dystopian literary texts in nineteenth and twentieth-century Hungarian literature, and therefore widens the scope of the traditionally Anglophone canon.
Dieses Buch zeichnet ein großes historisches Panorama Europas und der "abendländischen Welt" anhand der Musik, mit deren Hilfe die Menschen ihre Kulturen seit jeher gestaltet haben.
Der Dichter Hermann Bahr schrieb 1906 in seiner Wien-Monographie, dass die Stadt "im Qualm und Dunst der Vergangenheit" ächze – eine Diagnose, die auf die damals starke Präsenz von Geschichts- und Erinnerungskultur verweist.
'Beautiful, moving, profoundly imaginative in itself - this book is as entertaining as it is relevant and practical' ALAIN DE BOTTON'Anyone who has an imagination - that is, everyone - should read this book' EDWARD ENNINFUL'An extraordinary book - an elaborate cabinet of curiosities' SPECTATORFor some, the imagination is a luxury in the modern age; something which is by turns elusive, difficult to employ and better left to others.
Die Liebe ist eines der zentralen Themen in der Bibel: die Liebe Gottes zu den Menschen, die Liebe der Menschen zu Gott, zum Nächsten und zu sich selbst.
THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER***AS READ ON RADIO 4***The bestselling, prizewinning author of How to Live and At the Existentialist Caf explores 700 years of writers, thinkers, scientists and artists, all trying to understand what it means to be truly human.
The Warburg Institute, founded in the 1920s in Hamburg by art and cultural historian Aby Warburg, is a pioneering institution that has greatly shaped the fields of art, myth, religion, medicine, philosophy, and intellectual history.
Enlightenment - both the phenomenon specific to the eighteenth century and the continuing trend in Western thought - is an attempt to dispel ignorance, achieve mastery of a potentially hostile environment, and contain fear of the unknown by promoting science and rationality.
How did educated and cultivated men in early modern France and Britain perceive and value their own and women's cognitive capacities, and how did women in their circles challenge those perceptions, if only by revaluing the kinds of intelligence attributed to them?
Requiem for the Ego recounts Freud's last great attempt to 'save' the autonomy of the ego, which drew philosophical criticism from the most prominent philosophers of the period-Adorno, Heidegger, and Wittgenstein.
Its like talking to a brick wall and Well have to agree to disagree are popular sayings referring to the frustrating experience of discussing issues with people who seem to be beyond the reach of argument.
A holistic view of human development that rejects the conventional stages of childhood, adulthood, and old ageWhen we talk about human development, we tend to characterize it as proceeding through a series of stages in which we are first children, then adolescents, and finally, adults.
Ends of Enlightenment explores three realms of eighteenth-century European innovation that remain active in the twenty-first century: the realist novel, philosophical thought, and the physical sciences, especially human anatomy.
