David Hume, einer der einflussreichsten Denker der Aufklärung, revolutionierte das Verständnis von menschlicher Erkenntnis, Moral und der Natur des Selbst.
Our culture attempts to separate competing ideological factions by denying relationships between multiple perspectives and influences outside of one's own narrow interpretive community.
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.
Secularization and Its Discontents provides an illuminating overview of major current debates in the sociology of religion, exploring changing patterns of religious practice in the West during the past 150 years.
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.
The study of New Religious Movements (NRMs) is one of the fastest-growing areas of religious studies, and since the release of the first edition of The Oxford Handbook of New Religious Movements in 2003, the field has continued to expand and break new ground.
This sixth of seven volumes devoted to the Adages in the Collected Works of Erasmus completes the translation and annotation of the more than 4000 proverbs gathered and commented on by Erasmus in his Adagiorum Chiliades (Thousands of Adages, usually known more simply as the Adagia).
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.
Sustainability has become a compelling topic of domestic and international debate as the world searches for effective solutions to accumulating ecological problems.
Intentionality - the relationship between conscious states and their objects - is one of the most discussed topics in contemporary debates in philosophy of mind, cognitive neuroscience and the study of consciousness.
The concept of transhumanism emerged in the middle of the 20th century, and has influenced discussions around AI, brain-computer interfaces, genetic technologies and life extension.
Giovanni Pico della Mirandola war gerade einmal 23 Jahre alt, als er seine Neunhundert Thesen im Jahr 1486 in Rom mit der Schlussbemerkung veröffentlichen ließ, dass er persönlich jedem Gelehrten, der zur Disputation über die Thesen nach Rom kommen wolle, die Reisekosten erstatten würde.
Tracing embodied transformation in the context of Gaga, the Israeli dance improvisation practice, this book demystifies what Lina Aschenbrenner coins as neo-spiritual aesthetics.
In Vigilant Faith: Passionate Agnosticism in a Secular World, Daniel Boscaljon takes up the contemporary challenges to faith by skepticism and secularism.
