'Insurrectionist Ethics' is the name given to denote the myriad forms of justification for radical social transformation in the interest of freedom for oppressed people.
In Follow Your Tao, the teachings of Taoism and the healing system of TCM describe the interconnection between your health and everything you consume physically, mentally and spiritually.
La confrontación de la filosofía de Merleau-Ponty con la de Foucault, tal como nos sale al paso eminentemente -pero no solamente- en las críticas de este a aquel, sirve de excusa para abordar problemas centrales para la teoría del conocimiento contemporánea.
A beautiful reflection on the rhythm of God's justice and a call to engage with that rhythm in a way that takes us back toward healing, wholeness, and restoration.
This study examines the theories of postmodern visuality and representation and identifies concepts that resonate with Orthodox theology and iconography.
Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind.
Comprising 45 chapters, written especially for this volume by an international team of leading experts, The Routledge Companion to the Philosophies of Painting and Sculpture is the first handbook of its kind.
Filón de Alejandría en clave contemporánea discute estos ejes conceptuales que tienen gran presencia en la actualidad, tanto a través de su influencia permanente como a partir de su re-ingreso al pensamiento moderno mediante la propuesta de reconocidos autores contemporáneos, enmarcados en novedosas líneas de investigación que constituyen verdaderos avances en el ámbito de los estudios filónicos.
This book on Alain Badiou's philosophy begins with a central theme: the attempt to trace how Badiou has replaced the tradition of critical theory and negation with an affirmative support of his four generic procedures (art, science, love, and art) as inseparable from his revitalization of both the subject and the concept of truth.
Many scholars have struggled with Irigaray's focus on sexuate difference, in particular with her claim that it is "e;ontological,"e; wondering if this implies a problematically naive or essentialist account of sexuate difference.
Relativism, or the claim that it is possible that the appearances and opinions of each of us are correct for each of us, and hence that any view is as true as any other, has remained a continuing problem for philosophy and science for 2,500 years.
Relativism, or the claim that it is possible that the appearances and opinions of each of us are correct for each of us, and hence that any view is as true as any other, has remained a continuing problem for philosophy and science for 2,500 years.
This revised and updated edition of The Wabi-Sabi House recounts the history of this aesthetic philosophy and reveals ways to introduce it into your home.
This book is the first transcription and extensive commentary on a fascinating but almost entirely overlooked manuscript compilation of medical recipes and letters, which is held in the University of Nottingham.
This book examines the Franciscan alchemist Roger Bacon's (1220-1292) interest in the role of alchemy in medicine, and how this interest connected with the thirteenth-century milieu in which he was writing.
This book aims to enrich our understanding of the role the environment plays in processes of life and cognition, from the perspective of enactive cognitive science.
This book contains a selection of papers from the workshop Women in the History of Analytic Philosophy held in October 2019 in Tilburg, the Netherlands.
This book has two main tasks: (1) to call attention to the special challenges presented by our experience of affect-all varieties of pleasure and pain-and (2) to show how these challenges can be overcome by an "e;enrichment approach"e; that understands affect as the enrichment or deterioration of conscious activity as a whole.
Best known for his groundbreaking and influential work in Buddhist philosophy, Mark Siderits is the pioneer of "e;fusion"e; or "e;confluence philosophy"e;, a boldly systematic approach to doing philosophy premised on the idea that rational reconstruction of positions in one tradition in light of another can sometimes help address perennial problems and often lead to new and valuable insights.
Aristotle's essential guide to human flourishing-the Nicomachean Ethics-in a lively new abridged translationAristotle's Nicomachean Ethics is one of the greatest guides to human flourishing ever written, but its length and style have left many readers languishing.
This book is a phenomenological approach to film sound and film as a whole, bringing all sensory impressions together within the body as a sense of movement.
Known to millions as simply "e;Sister Jean,"e; the Loyola Chicago matriarch and college basketball icon invites you into her remarkable memoir filled with history, wonder, and common-sense wisdom for this century and beyond.
This edited volume presents papers on this alternative philosophy of biology that could be called “continental philosophy of biology,” and the variety of positions and solutions that it has spawned.
In this book, German philosopher Julian Nida-Rumelin presents a theory of practical reason that is objectivist, or rather realist, as an alternative to the widespread subjectivism in the theory of rationality.
Das (Neo-)Sokratische Gespräch ist eine philosophische Unterrichtsmethode, die auf Leonard Nelson zurückgeht und von Gustav Heckmann weiterentwickelt wurde.
From the Sunday Times bestselling authors of THE LITTLE BOOK OF HUMANISMA humanist funeral allows us the freedom to remember and celebrate the life of someone in exactly the way we want to and - as the most popular alternative to a religious ceremony - put us more closely in touch with the precious nature of life.
Early Greek Philosophy and Other Writings Excerpt Nietzsche, the man who stated, "e;One cannot think highly enough of women,"e; defines his ideal of a woman in The Greek Woman.
This book initiates a paradigm shift away from Zen/Chan as quintessentially Buddhist and examines what makes Chan thought and practice unique and original through an interdisciplinary investigation of the nature and rationale of Chan and its enlightenment.
This book initiates a paradigm shift away from Zen/Chan as quintessentially Buddhist and examines what makes Chan thought and practice unique and original through an interdisciplinary investigation of the nature and rationale of Chan and its enlightenment.
