Originally published in 1965, this volume provides selections of writings by English and French historians, philosophers and political scientists around the themes of freedom and opportunity; the functions of government; the spirit and machinery of free government; the freedom of thought and speech.
The Oxford Handbook of Indian Philosophy tells the story of philosophy in India through a series of exceptional individual acts of philosophical virtuosity.
Severo Sarduy was among the most important figures in twentieth-century Latin American fiction and a major representative of the literary tendency to which he gave the name Neobaroque.
Globalization has quickened the process of communication across the world, creating changes in material and non-material culture with the flow of ideas.
The birth of philosophical thought across the ancient world brought with it a keen interest in the study of leadership- reflections on who should lead and on how to create the best leadership structures became central to the debates of most prominent ancient philosophers.
El Laghu Vâkya Vritti o Breve exposición de sentencias védicas es un tratado preliminar (Prakarana Grantha) de la Filosofía Vedânta Advaita, escrito por el Gran Maestro hindú Sri Sankaracharya (788-820 dC).
A history of philosophy from the origins of reason in Ancient Greece to the most influential philosophers working today, this long-awaited single volume companion to Frederick Copleston's historic 11-volume series is a must-have for any aspiring philosopher.
Jacques Lacan and Michel Foucault are often cast as intellectual adversaries, their legacies marked by differences in method, lineages, and analytical priorities.
The question of hospitality is the most pressing question in contemporary thought: How can we host that which is utterly Other, that which resists all conceptualization, and thus disrupts the proper course of thought?
The seventeen contributions constituting this edited volume focus on archaic Greek thought - Presocratics broadly understood, including Sophists, Archaic poets, or Tragedians - and its multiform reception, use or appropriation through times and lands.
