"No son los muros ni los hombres quienes forman la patria; son las leyes, los usos y las costumbres, el gobierno, la constitución, la manera de ser que resulta de todo esto.
Los trabajos reunidos en el presente libro se originaron a lo largo de una investigación comenzada y desarrollada durante la última década, es decir, en una época particularmente conmocionada tanto en América Latina, y especialmente en América del Sur, como, a partir de 2007, en los países desarrollados del hemisferio Norte en general.
Atravesada por una valorable búsqueda de claridad y un cuidado interpretativo en el tratamiento de las ideas presentadas, esta obra escrita por un sociólogo revisa, discute y propone desarrollos de ideas y razonamientos que se distancian de los senderos más asentados en el ámbito profesional.
En la segunda conferencia de Sobre el porvenir de nuestras instituciones educativas, Nietzsche se refiere a la ya anquilosada traditio de pensamiento según la cual la filosofía habría comenzado con una suerte de "asombro".
Buena parte de las ciencias sociales trata el objeto de la política y del Estado, identificándolos con el iuspositivismo o sobre la base de herramientas teórico-analíticas conservadoras, que restringen los" "fenómenos aprehendidos a sus manifestaciones" "inmediatamente cuantificables, mensurables o repetibles.
"Anders' häufig essayistisch-unsystematisch anmutendes Denken erweist sich nicht nur als erstaunlich kohärent, philosophisch tiefgründig und radikal – es ist vor allem von bestechender Aktualität.
Riguroso y sutil, el libro de Paula Hunziker se incorpora a un acervo creciente de contribuciones que han producido de reciente los estudios arendtianos en América Latina.
Cada proyecto de investigación, sea colectivo o individual, sigue una estructura en la que debe precisarse el método o la metodología que se utilizará para trabajar un tema determinado.
Clearing up the confusion about religion, re-visioning the core elements of spiritual traditions, and transcending the fault line of secular-versus-religious.
A new account of global justice that recovers anticolonial thought for resisting a neocolonial agePoliticians and activists today turn to the language of decolonization to call attention to such issues as cultural and linguistic decline, exploitative foreign investment, and global institutions dominated by superpowers.
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animalsand our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them.
An entertaining and enlightening anthology of classical Greek and Roman writings on animalsand our vital relationships with themHow to Care about Animals is a fascinating menagerie of passages from classical literature about animals and the lives we share with them.
La composición del libro responde a un doble propósito: por una parte, introducir a los lectores en la obra de Ernst Jünger, autor poco conocido en nuestra lengua, para lo cual Cuasnicú le cede la palabra con la intención de mostrar la belleza del estilo, de quien se dijo que era el Borges alemán.
Liberalism, the founding philosophy of many constitutional democracies, has been criticized in recent years from both the left and the right for placing too much faith in individual rights and distributive justice.
El presente libro examina el concepto de guerra justa en la filosofía política de Carl Schmitt, basándose en una amplia investigación de las fuentes bibliográficas en idioma original.
How Tocqueville's ideas can help us build resilient liberal democracies in a divided worldHow can today's liberal democracies withstand the illiberal wave sweeping the globe?
Dieses eBook: "Von den Pflichten: Standardwerk antiker Ethik" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
A global journey showing how philosophy can transform our biggest disagreementsTeaching Plato in Palestine is part intellectual travelogue, part plea for integrating philosophy into our personal and public life.
How China's political model could prove to be a viable alternative to Western democracyWesterners tend to divide the political world into "e;good"e; democracies and "e;bad"e; authoritarian regimes.
Aristotle was the first philosopher in the Western tradition to address politics systematically and empirically, and he remains a central figure in political theory.
The first in-depth look at Stael's political life and writingsGermaine de Stael (1766-1817) is perhaps best known today as a novelist, literary critic, and outspoken and independent thinker.
Timeless wisdom on growing old gracefully from one of ancient Rome's greatest philosophersWorried that old age will inevitably mean losing your libido, your health, and possibly your marbles too?
The second and final volume of the most authoritative English-language edition of Spinoza's writingsThe Collected Works of Spinoza provides, for the first time in English, a truly satisfactory edition of all of Spinoza's writings, with accurate and readable translations, based on the best critical editions of the original-language texts, done by a scholar who has published extensively on the philosopher's work.
From the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller On Bullshit, the case for worrying less about the rich and more about the poorEconomic inequality is one of the most divisive issues of our time.
In this collection of remarkable biographical portraits, the great essayist and intellectual historian Isaiah Berlin brings to life a wide range of prominent twentieth-century thinkers, politicians, and writers.
Compelling essays from one of today's most esteemed cultural criticsSpanning many historical and literary contexts, Moral Imagination brings together a dozen recent essays by one of America's premier cultural critics.
How the Radical Enlightenment inspired and shaped the French RevolutionHistorians of the French Revolution used to take for granted what was also obvious to its contemporary observers-that the Revolution was shaped by the radical ideas of the Enlightenment.
