Social and political philosophy

Gender has become a commodity.

In this book, renowned anthropologist Michael Jackson draws on philosophy, biography, ethnography, and literature to explore the meanings and affordances of friendship-a relationship just as significant as, yet somehow different from, kinship and love.

Anarchism is generally defined as the political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, and harmful, or alternatively as opposing authority in the conduct of human relations.

Throughout history, kings and emperors have promised freedoms to their people.

Our genes determine to a large extent who we are and why we are different from others.

Louis Althusser's renowned short text "e;Ideology and Ideological State Apparatuses"e; radically transformed the concept of the subject, the understanding of the state and even the very frameworks of cultural, political and literary theory.

De la desesperación más profunda nace también la esperanza más íntima.

This interdisciplinary collection of essays demonstrates how the ethical and political problems we are confronted with today have come to focus largely on life.

The belief of many in the early sexual liberation movements was that capitalism's investment in the norms of the heterosexual family meant that any challenge to them was invariably anti-capitalist.

How can we live in such a way that we die only once?

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The relationship between education and democratic development has been a growing theme in debates focussed upon public education, but there has been little work that has directly related educational leadership to wider issues of freedom, politics and practice.

This ebook contains Aristotle's complete works.

Die 1513 erstmals erschienene Schrift widmet sich der Frage, wie man in einer feindlichen politischen Umwelt erfolgreich sein, Macht erwerben, diese Macht festigen und sogar noch ausweiten kann.

This book draws attention to the non-biological-political, economic, societal and cultural-variables shaping both the emergence and persistence of the COVID-19 pandemic and the global response to it, with a particular focus on political decisionmakers' role in the domestic and international politics surrounding the process of the pandemic.

This book enters into a detailed discussion with many theorists of totalitarianism, and demands a re-evaluation of approaches that speak of mass manipulation of people and ideological control mechanisms.

Soziale Dienstleistungen sind einem kontinuierlichen Wandel unterworfen.

Karl Jaspers war im letzten Jahrhundert – neben Heidegger –der wohl bekannteste deutsche Philosoph.

Der herkömmliche Individualismus geht in die Irre.

Empört über den zunehmenden Einfluß revolutionsfeindlicher Publikationen, wollte Fichte mit seinem anonym erschienenen Beitrag wirksam in den aktuellen politischen Meinungsstreit eingreifen.

Im Dezember 2012 diskutierten in Brasilien, an der Universidade Federal Rio Grande do Norte, Natal, renommierte Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaftler über Vilém Flusser (1920-1991), vormals Professor für Kommunikationsphilosophie in São Paulo, und seine Bedeutung für die Medienkultur heute.

In der unvollendet gebliebenen, posthum 1677 publizierten Streitschrift »Tractatus politicus« entwickelt Spinoza seine Politik-Theorie, wie ein Staat verfasst sein muss, damit er bei der zu realisierenden Freiheit der Individuen angesichts der Kräfte des affektiven Begehrens des Einzelnen ein friedvolles Leben der Menschen untereinander sicherstellen kann.

Ordnungen sind nicht einfach "gut", weil sie Ordnungen sind, und sie gelten auch nicht per se, wie man naiv annehmen könnte.

Out of the broad variety of Cusanus' work, this book discusses six of his writings, careful not to isolate them from the whole of his work.

Ein Vierteljahrhundert nach der Auflösung der Sowjetunion ist Russland wieder ins Zentrum der Weltaufmerksamkeit gerückt.

In her book Hille Haker pleads for a radical course correction of Catholic social ethics by focusing on three foundational concepts of social ethics: human rights, human dignity and moral responsibility based on the interplay of compassion, solidarity and justice.