Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the last three decades have concentrated on the supposedly 'antagonistic' relationship between France, Islam and its Muslims.
This poignant philosophy about the human capacity for love in the face of tragedy from the New York Times-bestselling author is as relevant today as it was when it was first broadcast.
Nietzschean Meditations takes its inspiration from the version of Nietzsche that was popular before the Second World War, which stressed the 'Zarathustrian' elements of his thought as the harbinger of a new sort of being - the Ubermensch.
This volume explores the challenges that humanists face from hostile religious traditionalists on its right flank and from the political antihumanism, which is often postsecular, of critics on its left flank.
Kant, Goethe, Schiller and other eighteenth-century German intellectuals loom large in the history of the humanities both in terms of their individual achievements and their collective embodiment of the values that inform modern humanistic inquiry.
Animal Minds, Animal Souls, Animal Rights explores the thinking of philosophers and theologians about controversies concerning animal consciousness and animal rights.
Die Sachworte wurden mit Blick auf die Eigentümlichkeiten der Lexik in den nachgelassenen Texten ausgewählt und es wurde versucht, möglichst alle ihre Okkurenzen zu verzeichnen.
Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the last three decades have concentrated on the supposedly 'antagonistic' relationship between France, Islam and its Muslims.
This book attempts to articulate the nature of a secular society, describe its benefits, and suggests the conditions under which such a society could emerge.
Islam in France is often regarded as a political 'issue' and much of the scholarly and public debates about Islam in contemporary France over the last three decades have concentrated on the supposedly 'antagonistic' relationship between France, Islam and its Muslims.
In this book, Marek Sullivan challenges a widespread consensus linking secularization to rationalization, and argues for a more sensual genealogy of secularity connected to affect, race and power.
Christian Dispensationalism, the Taiping Revolution, cargo cults in Oceania, the Baha'i Faith, and the Raelian Movement would seem to have little in common.
Caught in the whirlwind of the postindustrial revolution, many members of today's labor force look upon the changing job landscape and feel displaced and devalued.
A prehistory of today's humanities, from ancient Greece to the early twentieth centuryMany today do not recognize the word, but "e;philology"e; was for centuries nearly synonymous with humanistic intellectual life, encompassing not only the study of Greek and Roman literature and the Bible but also all other studies of language and literature, as well as history, culture, art, and more.
Sind es spezielle Ereignisse oder eine längere Entwicklung, die die für ihre kritischen Ansichten bekannten Autoren, Patrik Baab, Ulrike Guérot, Gabriele Gysi, Werner Köhne, Michael Meyen, Ullrich Mies, Hermann Ploppa, Dirk Pohlmann, Werner Rügemer, zu Kämpfern für echte Demokratie werden ließen?
